"At that moment I saw a big flash right out of the left of the wing…" (Video interview, 7:29, 3rd segment of recording)

Warren H. Berg

Warren Berg, 2003 War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Air Forces/Corps Unit: 8th Air Force, 96th Bomb Group, 413th Squadron Service Location: Fort Snelling, Minnesota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Santa Ana, California; Sacramento, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; Rapid City, South Dakota; Kearney, Nebraska; England Rank: Captain POW: Yes

For Army Air Corps Captain Warren Berg, flying on D-Day served as a precursor to greater challenges yet to come. June 6th, 1944 was his twenty-first mission, leading the last wave of planes over Normandy before ground troops landed. Sixteen bombing runs later, on the ominous date of January 13th, 1945, he was shot down over Germany. Interned in Stalag XIII-D from early February to April, he was forced to march nearly a hundred miles toward Munich before his eventual liberation by Allied troops on April 29th, 1945. Returning home, he spent nearly forty years training pilots for TWA Airlines.