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Happy Veterans day specifically to my grandpa. He flew a P47 Thunderbolt bomber plane in the Hell Hawks fighter group on D-Day and, to my knowledge, was the most decorated Jewish pilot in the air force. He was so so cool but barely talked about his time in the air force.

Zoe Steinbean

@tinytinydoe.bsky.social

I only learned about his whole story years after he passed when I found a recording from the Library of Congress where they interviewed him. He lost a wing and landed it at one point, no injuries! And after the war ended he went back to running a kosher meat plant and never talked about it.

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Zoe Steinbean

@tinytinydoe.bsky.social

11 Nov 2025

www.af.mil/News/Article... Here's an article about when he visited Normandy with other vets, including some of the few surviving members of his flight group (only 7 survived the war including my grandpa). You can see him in the first photo in the center and spoke during the ceremony. He met Obama!!

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Zoe Steinbean

@tinytinydoe.bsky.social

11 Nov 2025

Miss you so much Poppy. I hope that you're happy to be reunited with my grandma up there (she just passed away few weeks ago just shy of 100 years old). Keep flying high.