“We did not see ourselves as heroes. We had volunteered for a mission and we handled every situation that came our way. The end result tells how we did.”
The remains of a New York airman whose trove of 200-plus wartime letters inspired a California museum’s popular World War II exhibit have been identified 75 years after he died in a crash off a Pacific island.
Authorities say an airman stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base and another man who had stopped to help him following a crash were struck and killed by a semi that veered off an icy highway in southwestern South Dakota.