Jack Tueller learned to play the trumpet as a child growing up in Chicago . Louis Armstrong once told him , ` ` Always loving the melody , Jack '' Tueller became a World War II pilot and carried his trumpet in his cockpit . An airstrip had been carved out of the Normandy countryside , costing the lives of 28 Army engineers at the hands of German snipers . He says his playing once prevented a German pilot from killing him .
Jack Tueller learned to play the trumpet as a child growing up in Chicago . Louis Armstrong once told him , ` ` Always loving the melody , Jack '' Tueller became a World War II pilot and carried his trumpet in his cockpit . He says his playing once prevented a German pilot from killing him .