Yvonne Kays

We Must Remember | A Veterans Day Author Event

Join Herringbone Books this Veterans Day for a special presentation with award-winning author Yvonne Kays, whose book Silver Wings Falling Down shares the remarkable true story of love, courage, and survival during World War II.

Missing in action—eight men behind enemy lines...

After Pearl Harbor, W.T. Eaves swaps the West Texas oil fields for the skies, earning his silver wings as a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps. While training in Galveston, the beautiful, dark-eyed Jean captures Eaves’ heart and they marry—just months before he’s sent to war.

Called to aerial combat in the Fifteenth Air Force, Eaves and his B-24 crew run the gauntlet of flak and battle the Luftwaffe to deliver their bombloads. Time and again they watch comrades fall from the skies.

But before completing their thirty missions, luck runs out. Flak destroys an engine and somewhere over Yugoslavia, enemy fighters swarm in for the kill.

Back in Texas, the devastating telegram arrives: “Missing in Action”. For Eaves and his young bride, grit, courage, and faith are their only lifeline—to impossible hope, and to each other.

Silver Wings Falling Down is a powerful true story of love, loyalty, and survival against impossible odds—a tribute to the generation that risked everything for freedom.

Yvonne Kays, an award-winning author, was inspired by the true World War II stories of two bomber boys in her own family—her uncles, 1 st Lt. W.T. Eaves, a Silver Star recipient, and Tech/Sgt. Walker “Spike” Hale Jr. with a Purple Heart. Research uncovered unsung heroes with incredible stories of courage and danger, romance and faith, tales that needed to be told. Yvonne has a MAT from Lewis and Clark College. She and her husband live in beautiful Central Oregon.