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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.

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.

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!!