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Recognizing an act of valor some sixty years later.(READERS' NOTE)
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Air Power History
- Article date:
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June 22, 2008
- Author:
- Trippi, Frank T.
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In March 2005, a Frenchman named Olivier LeFloch contacted the Air Force Historical Studies Office, at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. M. LeFloch was seeking information about Eugene Fleming, a World War II Army Air Forces pilot, concerning an episode connected with the village of Sonzay, about 15 km. northwest of Tours. Occupying the information desk at the time, Col. Frank T. Trippi, USAFR (Ret.), a volunteer researcher at Bolling AFB, answered the inquiry. Thus began a two-year-long correspondence concerning Fleming and other aircrew of the 367th Fighter Group. Using microfilm copies of records stored at the Air Force Historical Research Agency on Maxwell AFB, ...