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Lee Bevers, Air Corps veteran from Watertown
Sioux Falls VA Medical Center
Lee A. Bevers, 2007   Audio interview
Branch of Service: United States Army Air Corps
Highest Rank: Captain
Military Service: May, 1941 - Jan, 1946
Listen to the following interview sections by scrolling forward to the time cue.

:02 Enlisted into the Army Air Corpe in 1941 at the age of 21
:50 POW in 1944
4:38 Feelings toward Nazi Germans
5:52 Family knew that he was missing but nothing else
7:17 Flew 26 missions before being shot down
7:30 July 1945 - came home
8:08 Life after coming home
8:25 Talking about experience isn't difficult for him
9:19 Plane he was flying was a B17
9:45 Stories of dropping bombs over targets
12:12 Walked into prison camp on his 24th birthday


Lee A. Bevers, 2007 (Interviewed by Johanna Sailor, SDPB Radio)


Lee A. Bevers, 1942


Flight Crew , 1943
 

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