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“Faces of the Distinguished Flying Cross...” (Cont’d.)
New Book About DFCS Villages Chapter Members
“The hardest part was being away from my family,” says John Webb, 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army, serving in Vietnam. “My daughter was being born right then, and somebody had to tell me the baby was born safely and that it was a girl.”
David Lehtonen, Lt. Colonel, US Air Force/CAP, served in Korea and the Cold War. He was asked the meaning of courage: “Something you go through that is stressful, bad, but you do it anyway. When you have a job, it’s your duty to complete it. So you do.”
Of the seven men at the presentation and book signing at Leesburg Public Library, all are members of the Villages Chapter of the DFC Society of Central Florida.
All 24 first-person accounts are compelling stories of young pilots who earned the prestigious award describing their heroic acts of exceptional courage, while flying combat missions during World War II, Korea, the Cold War, and Vietnam.
The book is available in soft cover on Amazon.com and will be available in hard cover at the upcoming 2018 Central Florida Book and Authors Expo being held December 8, 2018 at Eisenhower Recreation Center in The Villages. It’s free and open to the public.
Members of the Villages Chapter of the DFC Society tell their war stories in a new book
“Faces of the Distinguished Flying Cross of Central Florida: In Their Own Words”.
L-R: Barney Barnhart, Joseph Finch, David Lehtonen, Ken Taylor, Wayne Lotsberg, John Webb, and Richard Burns.
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