From the September 28, 2012, Lehigh Valley (Pa) Morning Call by Nicole Radzievich.
Wendall A. Phillips, 88, was a 21-year-old radio operator in the US Army Air Force when his plane was shot down and he was captured in 1944 by the Germans. He managed to escape and then fight in the Pacific Theater where he was again captured, this time by the Japanese. This time he was tortured.
He was National Chaplain of the China-Burma-India Organization, a group that flew the treacherous supply route over the Himalayas.
Imagine being captured twice and by the two main enemies we were fighting.
The Greatest Generation
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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