World War II Honoree

Meyer Clyde Wagner, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Houston, Texas

Honored By

Susan Wagner Gillette

Relationship

Daughter

Volunteered in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941. Received the Silver Star and Purple Heart while serving as Wing Commander on a bombardment mission on August 8, 1944. Shot down over Segrie Fontaine, France; captured, operated on with no anesthetic by French surgeons low on supplies, escaped, recaptured, saved by French underground just as he was about to be loaded on a train and taken to a prison camp. Help in private homes and churches until the end of the war.