As England braced for a life-or-death struggle against Germany in the summer of 1940, most Americans knew more about baseball than the bombs about to fall on London.
More than a year before Pearl Harbor brought America into World War II, Leckrone left his wife and two small children--risking loss of citizenship, jail time, and hefty fines.
The tall, handsome and gregarious pilot from a small town in downstate Illinois had a taste for fast cars--and faster airplanes.
Not Phil Leckrone.
As England braced for a life-or-death struggle against Germany in the summer of 1940, most Americans knew more about baseball than the bombs about to fall on London