Cedar Rapids, Shenandoah man reunited 64 years after B-17 shot down May 5, 2008
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Image via WikipediaFrom Shenandoah Valley News Today:
March 27, 1944 played an extraordinarily vital role in the lives of Clark Underwood of Shenandoah and Joe Koenig of Cedar Rapids.
It was the day their B-17 was shot down by a German fighter, crashing into the Bay of Biscay.
It was also the last time the two men saw each other.
When Underwood’s story of survival was published in the Valley News Today on April 2, it reached Koenig. …
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