A North Texas family is preparing to lay to rest a World War II pilot whose remains were just recently identified. Air Force Technical Sergeant Frank Norris will be buried in his hometown of Quinlan in Hunt County.
A North Texas family is preparing to lay to rest a World War II pilot whose remains were just recently identified.To the average person, a vintage World War II video shows B-24 bombers in combat. But it’s much more to Steve Norris.
Then-23-year-old Frank was serving as a flight engineer on Aug. 1, 1943, for Operation Tidal Wave. It was the largest U.S. air raid waged against Adolf Hitler’s Romanian airfields. 178 bombers started out. Only 88 returned.
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