One of my second cousins just posted the wartime diary of my great grandfather, Alberto ("Santy") Santa Maria, online. Santy was a fighter pilot in World War I. His life in France during the war consisted of daily patrols and other missions during which his plane was regularly shot up by the enemy. The vast majority of the other pilots in his squadron were either killed or seriously injured after either being shot down or from crashing due to engine failure. Remarkably, Santy made it out of the war uninjured. And he got to play a lot of baseball during his downtime.
http://home.comcast.net/~chrissm01/site/?/page/Santy%27s_Diary_/
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