It seems appropriate also to mention creditable service when those who performed it are often disinclined to speak of, or even recall the events of the war years. Fascinating books have been written by and about combat crewmen who dodged the bullets, flew through the flak and gave first aid to wounded crewmates. Considerably fewer books have been written by and about those who spliced hydraulic lines in the freezing rain at two o'clock in the morning. Or those who hauled the ordnance, or kept the payroll, or cooked the food, or unloaded the supplies and so on.

None of them are forgotten.