From the April 11, 2016, Chicago Tribune "Lawyer, vet wrote book about war experiences" by Bob Goldsborough.
Donald E. Casey Sr., a Chicago lawyer and frequent volunteer at Chicago's Pritzker Military Museum & Library, was also an author who in 2009 documented his experiences as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany during World War II.
He died March 14, 2016. Born in Oak Park and attended school at Campion Jesuit High in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and then went to Purdue University.
While at Purdue, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces' Aviation Cadet program during World War II. Called to active duty in February 1943, he completed aerial navigation school the following October and became a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortress bombers on combat missions from England.
--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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