January 14, 1999 | Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH)
John Dragan, a retired spring coiler, was awarded the Air Medal six times. He also received the Purple Heart after serving as a turret gunner in the Army Air Forces with the 558th Bomber Squadron's 387th Bomb Group during World War II.
He participated in the air offensives of the Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland campaigns. On his final mission in December 1944, his plane was shot down over Germany. Mr. Dragan was wounded, captured by German soldiers and taken to Stalag 7A, a prisoner-of-war camp at the Bavarian town of Moosburg where he remained until the camp was liberated a few months later.
Since the war, Mr. Dragan, who attained the rank of sergeant, suffered vision and mobility problems that stemmed from being starved at the prison camp and from bullet fragments that were never removed from his body.
John Dragan, a retired spring coiler, was awarded the Air Medal six times. He also received the Purple Heart after serving as a turret gunner in the Army Air Forces with the 558th Bomber Squadron's 387th Bomb Group during World War II.
He participated in the air offensives of the Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland campaigns. On his final mission in December 1944, his plane was shot down over Germany. Mr. Dragan was wounded, captured by German soldiers and taken to Stalag 7A, a prisoner-of-war camp at the Bavarian town of Moosburg where he remained until the camp was liberated a few months later.
Since the war, Mr. Dragan, who attained the rank of sergeant, suffered vision and mobility problems that stemmed from being starved at the prison camp and from bullet fragments that were never removed from his body.
January 14, 1999 | Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH)
John Dragan, a retired spring coiler, was awarded the Air Medal six times. He also received the Purple Heart after serving as a turret gunner in the Army Air Forces with the 558th Bomber Squadron's 387th Bomb Group during World War II.
He participated in the air offensives of the Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland campaigns. On his final mission in December 1944, his plane was shot down over Germany. Mr. Dragan was wounded, captured by German soldiers and taken to Stalag 7A, a prisoner-of-war camp at the Bavarian town of Moosburg where he remained until the camp was liberated a few months later.
Since the war, Mr. Dragan, who attained the rank of sergeant, suffered vision and mobility problems that stemmed from being starved at the prison camp and from bullet fragments that were never removed from his body.
John Dragan, a retired spring coiler, was awarded the Air Medal six times. He also received the Purple Heart after serving as a turret gunner in the Army Air Forces with the 558th Bomber Squadron's 387th Bomb Group during World War II.
He participated in the air offensives of the Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland campaigns. On his final mission in December 1944, his plane was shot down over Germany. Mr. Dragan was wounded, captured by German soldiers and taken to Stalag 7A, a prisoner-of-war camp at the Bavarian town of Moosburg where he remained until the camp was liberated a few months later.
Since the war, Mr. Dragan, who attained the rank of sergeant, suffered vision and mobility problems that stemmed from being starved at the prison camp and from bullet fragments that were never removed from his body.
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