Meet 1st Lt Valleau Wilkie, Jr

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians.

Meet 1st Lt Valleau Wilkie, Jr.
 
Former Executive Director of the Sid Richardson Foundation, and WWII veteran Valleau Wilkie, Jr will be going with us on the October 16 flight. 1st Lt Wilkie was in the AAC flying B-17 over Germany when he was shot down. He spent a few months trying to get back to England through the Dutch and Belgium Underground but ultimately ended up in the hands of the German Gestapo. He was a POW until April of 1945 when he was liberated from Stalag Luft 7A by the Allied Forces.