RIP Norman Lear

[cardboard_killer]

Norman Lear, who was a very influential television and movie executive, was also a B-17 radio operator in the Med during the war, flying 52(?) combat missions.

 

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Lear enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in September 1942.^[16] He served in the Mediterranean theater as a radio operator and gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force; in a 2014 interview, he talked about bombing Germany.^[11] He flew 52 combat missions and received the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters.^[17] Lear was discharged from the Army Air Forces in 1945.^[18] His World War II crew members are featured in the book Crew Umbriago by Daniel P. Carroll.^[19]

 

Edited December 11, 2023 by cardboard_killer