Charlie “Buck” Rogers

2nd Lieutenant Charlie “Buck” Rogers and his brother Robert also served in WWII but in different theaters. Robert was a Marine Captain in the South Pacific while Charlie was a pilot over the front lines in Europe. Charlie would end up flying a small unarmed piper cub with his passenger/spotter. We learned how he managed to pinpoint the enemy guns and camps, relay the locations to the gunners and go out back at it again and again. Never flying the same route twice and only a few feet over the treetops, they would be known as “Grasshopper pilots.”