Deaths: Ira Weinstein-- Took Part in Kassel Mission-- Part 2: "Nobody Knew"

After the war Ira Weinstein ran his own advertising business, Schram Advertising, for 40 years.  It is nowknown as Temkin & Temkin.

But he was always involved with keeping the mission in World War II out there in the public.

According to Linda Alice Dewey, president of the Kassel Mission Historical Society, which her father and Weinstein helped found in 1989: "These men wanted the world to know that this happened, that it was a tragedy of great proportions, and that the world has]d a right to know.  It was the worst loss for a single group flying from one airfield in a single day's battle. -- ever.  No other group lost more men and machines in one day than they did.  And, that's what hurt -- nobody knew."

--GreGen