"They all did not mount and ride an actual bomb. Their predicaments were, nonetheless, explosive, life-threatening and terrifying as if they were juggling nitroglycerin while skipping rope."

Here are adventures of courage, endurance and amazing survival in World War II. These are the stories of people who should not have escaped death. Yet they prevailed to become part of the greatest generation that is heralded in the writings of broadcaster Tom Brokaw.