Kildow biography
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He rises from deep poverty as an orphan to become one of America’s top combat pilots, while hiding and suppressing a deep secret from his past.
She is wealthy, lives a life many can only dream of. She, too, harbors a secret.
They meet by chance in a small town in Japan where no one knows them. He is on a break from combat. She reveals her secret: an expensive divorce looms. He keeps his secret to himself.
Their fiery week-long romance ends with a promise to reunite five months later, at the end of his combat tour. The reunion takes place five years later, under challenging circumstances.
This is a story about a romance that endures despite strong obstacles, some self-imposed. Their lives thrive around the lovechild they create in that small town, a son who displays all of their strong traits, plus one that neither parent seems to possess.
This is also a story about war in the jet age, battles in the skies over Korea and Europe, battles that never seem to end. Adversaries that change regularly, war to war, with consequences.
Finally, it’s a story about redemption, how his deep secret, inadvertently revealed, brings him down. How a nation learns to forgive and honor a true hero.
About Alfred Kildow
Alfred Kildow grew up orphaned and poor. On
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About Jeff Kildow
Jeff Kildow is the son of a World War II veteran and is an Air Force veteran himself. He retired after a long career as an aerospace engineer. He has had a life-long interest in World War II and has amassed a large library on the subject. He loves vintage warbirds and old cars. The undeclared war in Korea, involving as it did an amalgam of WWII and then -cutting edge warplanes, and complex political situations resulting from WWII led to the development of Red Menace, available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
A little more personal (excerpt from 2011 interview)
Tell us how much of yourself you write into your characters.
Sometimes a lot more than I intend to; while I was writing America Under Attack, I had to guard against giving the protagonist too many of my characteristics, but I suppose that some of them inevitably showed up. Not surprisingly, he and I share a number of likes and dislikes; like me, he is an engineer; unlike me, he fearlessly pursues adventure.
What is the quirkiest thing you have ever done?
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