Frank A. Kravetz, born in North Versailles, PA 10-25-23 raised in East Pittsburg,
PA. Entered the Army Air Corps on November 2nd, 1943 in Greensboro, N.C. He attended
Gunnery School in Kingman, AZ, and crew training at McDill, FL. From there he was flown
over the North Atlantic route overseas to be stationed at Glatton Air Base, England were
he was attached to the 457th Bomb Group, 750th Squad. On a mission to Merseberg on November
2nd, 1944 his crew was attacked by enemy fighters. When we were attacked, I was wounded in
both legs by shrapnel from enemy gun fire and we lost all but one engine. We kept the
plane airborne long enough for us to make it to Hanover were we had to bail out from a
flak attack. When we were bailing out my chute opened in the plane, when my crew members
got me they dragged to the door, then folded my chute in my arms and pushed me out of the
plane. Shortly after landing in a cabbage patch I was taken to a barn and was there
until I was taken to a hospital in Hanover (it seems like days because of a loss of blood and
shock). After an operation in my legs I was taken to Dulag Luft on Nov. 11th, 1944, then
to Obermass field for more operations, skin grafts, and rehabilitation. In the middle of
February I arrived in Nuremburg until April 1st when we left by foot and arrived at
Mooseburg (approximately 150 kilometers) on April 15th and was liberated on April 29th.
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