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Lee Bevers

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WWII Veteran Lee A. Bevers, 2007

Lee A. Bevers, 2007

Branch of Service: United States Army Air Corps
Highest Rank: Captain
Military Service: May 1941 - Jan 1946

Listen to the following sections by scrolling forward to the timecode.

:02 - Enlisted into the Army Air Corpe in 1941 at the age of 21
:50 - POW in 1944
4:38 - Feelings toward Nazi Germans
5:52 - Family knew that he was missing but nothing else
7:17 - Flew 26 missions before being shot down
7:30 - July 1945 - came home
8:08 - Life after coming home
8:25 - Talking about the experience isn't difficult for him
9:19 - The plane he was flying was a B17
9:45 - Stories of dropping bombs over targets
12:12 - Walked into prison camp on his 24th birthday

This story was recorded at an SDPB event in Sioux Falls, SD.

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Lee A. Bevers, 1942

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Flight Crew, 1943

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