Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and film and television producer who has produced, written, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear is known for many popular 1970s sitcoms, including All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, and Good Times.
Was Norman Lear a pilot in WW2?
TV producer Norman Lear, best known for iconic American sitcoms All in the Family and The Jeffersons, talks about his service as an air force pilot during World War Two.
”I flew there was a sortie basis and a mission basis I flew 52 missions because there were some missions we got credit for two because they were so long and I dropped bombs, we dropped bombs 33 times.
And your family did not want you in the war.
No, my mother begged me. We, you know, if you were in college you didn’t have to go in so long as you remained in college but it was that time of life in America we were so in love with the country we, speaking for myself, I had to be there.” He narrated.