World War II Honoree

Edwin Keith Fuller

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Arlington, Texas

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

He went overseas as a 1st Lieutenant with the Eighth Air Force as a navigator-bombardier on a B-17 aircraft. On his 10th mission with 457th Bomb Group, his plane caught fire from flak, and he bailed out at 21,000 feet over occupied Nancy, France. He spent the next 14 months in a series of Stalag- lufts, Prisoner of War camps for airmen, until U.S. Third U.S. Army tanks battered down the gates of Stalag VII-A, outside Munich. Certain that he would not survive the camp’s liberation, he ventured out from beneath his bunk only when he saw General George S. Patton himself, in full military regalia with ivory-handled pistols, handing out C-rations to the jubilant inmates.