. . Henry Link took flying lessons as a teenager in the Great Depression near his home in the Banksville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In 1941, he joined the navy and became a pilot, but instead of being sent into combat he was sent to Texas to train other navy air crews.
. . From “What It Means to be an American,” by Andy Marchese: "Carmen Leffler’s family is originally from Spain but came to the United States in the early 1900s. Just before the start of WWII, she returned with her family to Spain but then moved to the Phillipines so her
. . Gene Laus entered the US Army Air Corps in July 1942 and flew aboard a C-46 as a radio operator and navigator. He flew in the China, Burma, India theater and flew a trip over the Himalayas before leaving in 1945. Pittsburgh WWII veteran Gene Laus entered the
. . AJ Laus entered the US Navy in May 1944 and served in the engine room aboard the attack transport USS Sanborn (APA-193) in the Pacific. He left the Navy in 1947.
. . At the start of World War II, Charlotte Lang was a student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a foods and nutrition major, she had no intention of getting involved in the war effort. However, Charlotte soon became dissatisfied with a career in nutrition, and
. . Dick Labuskas served with the Army Air Corps during WWII.
