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Bio:
Frank A. Kravetz, born in North Versailles, PA 10-25-23 raised
in East Pittsburgh, PA. Entered the Army Air Corps on November 2nd,
1943 in Greensboro, N.C. He attended Gunnery School in Kingman, AZ,
and crew training at McDill, FL. From there he was flown over the
North Atlantic route overseas to be stationed at Glatton Air Base,
England were he was attached to the 457th Bomb Group, 750th Squad. On
a mission to Merseberg on November 2nd, 1944 his crew was attacked by
enemy fighters. When we were attacked, I was wounded in both legs by
shrapnel from enemy gun fire and we lost all but one engine. We kept
the plane airborne long enough for us to make it to Hanover were we
had to bail out from a flak attack. When we were bailing out my chute
opened in the plane, when my crew members got me they dragged to the
door, then folded my chute in my arms and pushed me out of the plane.
Shortly after landing in a cabbage patch I was taken to a barn and was
there until I was taken to a hospital in Hanover (it seems like days
because of a loss of blood and shock). After an operation in my legs I
was taken to Dulag Luft on Nov. 11th, 1944, then to Obermass field for
more operations, skin grafts, and rehabilitation. In the middle of February
I arrived in Nuremburg untill April 1st when we left by foot and
arrived at Mooseburg (approximately 150 kilometers) on April 15th and
was liberated on April 29th.
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