{"id":2014,"date":"2017-06-23T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2017-06-22T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:44:58","slug":"world-war-ii-veterans-living-legends-frank-buschmeier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/world-war-ii-veterans-living-legends-frank-buschmeier\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Veterans: Living Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not often that you get to meet a living legend.\u00a0 I consider any man who fought in World War II and is still walking this earth to be a living legend.\u00a0 There are not many of them left, but there are a few.\u00a0 My Dad, sons and I got the privilege of meeting one and I would like you to meet him too.<\/p>\n<p>The event was the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Gala at the Tri-State Warbird Museum located at Clermont County Airport, east and north of downtown Cincinnati.\u00a0 Founded by David O\u2019Maley and friends such as Neil Armstrong, the Museum is dedicated to preserving the aircraft of World War II, educating visitors on America&#8217;s role in WWII, and honoring the veterans who fought and those who made the ultimate sacrifice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org\/history.html\">http:\/\/www.tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org\/history.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was June 9, 2017.\u00a0 During the introductions to dinner he was called out, \u201cFrank Buschmeier\u201d.\u00a0 He was sitting just a few feet from us.\u00a0 He was in a wheelchair.\u00a0 After the announcement, I said to my boys, \u201cLet\u2019s go over there and meet a legend\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WWII-Vet-Frank-Buschmeir-Andrew-Brent-Daryl-e1498170561273.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>We introduced ourselves.\u00a0 We ask him for his story.\u00a0 Frank told us that he had been stationed in England flying on B-17s.\u00a0 His son, sitting nearby, piped up.\u00a0 \u201cHis first mission was the first bombing run over Berlin\u2026in fact his first four missions were over Berlin\u201d.\u00a0 Apparently, one of the missions proved to be the deadliest of all for the B-17 formation.\u00a0 I believe they told me that over 60 B-17s were shot down on the mission.\u00a0 The pilot later reported that you did not need a navigator to get back to England, you only needed to follow the smoking trail of downed B-17s all the way back.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/B-17_group_in_formation-e1498170703734.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Eventually Frank\u2019s plane was shot down as well.\u00a0 He spent 9 \u00bd months as a Prisoner of War (POW) in Eastern Europe.\u00a0 He, eventually, was liberated by the Russians.\u00a0 He came back to the United States, he married, he worked, and he raised a family as part of the Greatest Generation (as Tom Brokaw calls them).<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/B-17_on_bomb_run-e1498170760726.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>I marvel at the fact that for years I walked by these men, and just figured, that this is some older gentlemen.\u00a0 Yet they are so much more.\u00a0 These are living legends that fought so hard, when they were so young, to preserve our freedom.\u00a0 Try to meet them before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Before departing, Frank\u2019s son told us that Tom Hanks and others are working on a documentary, similar to <em>Band of Brothers<\/em>, which will chronicle Frank\u2019s Bomb Group.\u00a0 Frank has been interviewed for the work.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope that Frank\u2019s story, and others like it, get recorded before all of these brave men slip into eternity.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" 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