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WW II Airman Returns Home to Illinois after 80 Years

June 5, 2023/Comments Off on WW II Airman Returns Home to Illinois after 80 Years

Eighty years ago American service members were engrossed in a great conflict pitting the United States and its Allies against Nazi-controlled Germany and the Axis powers. On August 1, 1943, a small town southern Illinoisan, 32-year-old Tech. Sgt. Harold Kretzer, was fighting in the skies over Ploiești, Romania, to starve the Nazi war machine of…

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