Remembering the Cloud

by Charles Reddig, Connie Kirby (Contributor), Dennis Denenberg (Contributor)

In this invigorating book, Connie Kirby sits down with her father to ask him about his experience as a pilot during World War II. In this interview format, Major Charlie Reddig tells deeply engaging stories of his early days flying planes around the farms of his community, and how he and his friends enlisted to fight in the war, and their adventures in the Pacific theatre. All of this culminates in the harrowing tale of Major Reddig's fateful flight over Hiroshima just after the A-Bomb decimated the city. In vivid detail, he recounts what he—perhaps the last living American to witness the devastation—saw and felt as he Remembers the Cloud.

102 pages, Paperback

Published February 8, 2018

Reviews

[Noah · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75/5. I very much respect this gentleman’s WWII service and his wife’s effort in chronicling it, but the narrative was too incomplete and disjointed to get a proper a sense of it. For instance, I wasn’t even entirely sure whether Redding was a pilot, gunner, or bombardier.

[Christian Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I met Major Reddig recently at a hospital. He was very interesting to talk to and it was fun to hear his story.