Seeking More of the Sky (ePub)

Charles N. Stevens, or Norm as his friends call him, grew up in Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. His parents moved from Los Angeles to Inglewood in 1932, partially because his father enjoyed the refreshing sea breezes that sprung up nearly every afternoon from the nearby Pacific.



It was a time when the country was struggling with a deep depression and had not yet entered World War II. He attended Inglewood schools from the second grade through graduation from Inglewood High School in 1942.



Not long after graduation, he was inducted into the service. He became a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, serving in the Eighth Air Force in England from which he participated in thirty-four bombing missions over Germany and occupied France. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross.



After the war, aided by the G. I. Bill, he enrolled at UCLA, graduating in 1951 with a BA degree in psychology.



After earning a teaching credential at UCLA, he became a teacher, continuing in the profession, primarily in Montebello, California, for thirty-two years. He taught science and math in his beginning years, then after getting a master’s degree in English at California State College in Los Angeles, he taught English and American Literature.



He is the author of three books about his military experiences. They are An Innocent at Polebrook, which is about his bombing missions; The Innocent Cadet, which concerns his cadet and crew training; and Back from Combat, which deals with his retraining as a radar bombardier after coming home from overseas.



The author lives with his wife of forty-three years, Dolores Seidman, in Monterey Park, California. He has two sons by a previous marriage, Jeffry Stevens and Greg Stevens. He has five grandchildren (now adults): Eric Stevens, Michael Stevens, Beth Stevens, Brenda Sherry, and Sharon De Beauchamp. He also has four great grandchildren:

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