Milton W. Stern |
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Milton Stern as a cadet. [detail] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army Air Forces/Corps
381st Bomb Group
Ridgewell Air Force Base, England
Major
Yes
Buffalo, NY
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Shot down over Holland in March 1944, navigator Milton Stern was sheltered by Dutch partisans for 10 weeks before being captured and sent to a German prison camp. There he recorded lists of German rations by weight and composed poems to keep up his spirits. Later in the war, he helped "liberate" a shipment of Red Cross parcels that civilians working near the camp were hoarding, gorging himself on the contents in anticipation of his own liberation by the Allies.
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