From the April 13, 2015, Chicago Tribune "WWII navigator ran Best's sausage" by Lee V. Gaines.
SHELDON STERNBERG, 92 (1923-April 9, 2015)
He started working for his wife's family's company Best's Kosher Sausage Co. in Chicago soon after returning from World War II.
The company was founded in Cincinnati in 1886 and later served hot dogs at Wrigley Field and other landmark Chicago venues. He was president when the company was sold to Sara Lee in 1993
While a sophomore at DePaul University in 1942, he, at age 19, enlisted in the Army Air Force and joined the 390th Bombardment Squadron and was sent to Europe where he served as a navigator on bombing missions.
Starting in March 1945 Mr. Steinbberg was on w=eight bombing missions over Germany. A few weeks after that, in May 1945, he was in Operation Chowhound, a series of humanitarian missions including food drops over the Netherlands to assist starving civilians. He remembered looking down and seeing the Ditch had written "Thank you, boys" in tulips.
More to Come. --GreGen
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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