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Morris W. Magnuson, veteran
Sioux Falls DAV


How My Life Was Saved By Silk
By Morris W. Magnuson

My Very Own Special P-47, 7U-N
By Morris W. Magnuson
Morris Magnuson, 2007
Audio interview

Listen to the following interview sections by scrolling forward to the time cue
0:45 Enlsited in the Army Air Corp as a fighter pilot
1:55 Childhood dream of flying planes
3:01 Flight School
4:55 Perception of war
6:01 "Kill or Be Killed"
11:00 Injured on a mission
15:07 Became a prisoner of war
16:45 Planding with parachute after being shot down
20:22 Family receives word of MIA
21:29 Landed in New York Harbor
22:24 Experience of being POW
23:25 Wants to shar war stories with high schools
25:43 Life after the war


Morris W. Magnuson (Interviewed by Patrick Mack, SDPB Radio)


Three of Morris W. Magnuson's most treasured medals.

New Testament Psalms given to Morris W. Magnuson by his mother Lily Magnuson. Mr. Magnuson received the gift from his mother in 1943. Mr. Magnuson carried this New Testament with him during WWII.

 


 


    
Section of wire matting used for a runway during WWII.


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