I read this book and it's very good. It pretty much ends in the middle of the narrative, and says nothing of why, until you google it and find out that he was killed.Quote:
Read "Serenade to the Big Bird" by Bert Stiles. It was mentioned on the We have ways of making you talk podcast. He was a B17 co-pilot for 35 missions before switching to fighters.
As for the United Nations thing, that was a general name for the alliance against the Axis that was in common usage long before it became an official organization. I think he adopted the terminology from media (radio and newspapers) which used it in that form, and probably from the command public affairs folks. I don't think the book was edited much after he died, as it doesn't even have a one-sentence explanation for ending in the middle of the action.