Continuing with the Chicago Tribune article.
As Hank Rossetti prepared to treat the wounded, another Chicagoan, John Kraeger, 89, was flying over the English Channel toward targets in Normandy. The Rogers Park native was a ball turret gunner on an Army Air Force B-24, providing relief for ground troops on the beaches by destroying German transportation routes.
"We flew across the channel and we bombed a road and a rail junction. It was like mass confusion. There (were) planes going everyplace, and we could see the ships down in the channel firing behind the invasion."
Like most of the remaining World War II veterans, Kraeger was one of the youngest men in his unit. "Doing that, being there, it's something you will never forget. I was just an enlisted man, a very small cog in the big machine."
--Old Secesh
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