Fulton "Rusty" Sandler

“I was on a mission to bomb Berlin when our B-17 lost an engine. We turned back toward England, but were shot down over Belgium and captured on April 29, 1944. I was the navigator, and along with fellow officers, was separated from the crew and sent to prison camp. Being Jewish, I was put into solitary confinement and interrogated. We all survived but spent exactly one year in several camps. We were freed by General Patton on April 29, 1945.”