Dale County AlArchives Photo person.....Walter A. Hardzog, June 1, 1944 , (WWII ) 
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Source: The Southern Star
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55 years ago, June 1, 1944 ...Reprinted June 9, 1999

Ozark Pilot Is Featured In Saturday Evening Post Story

KANSAS CITY, Kans., May 31- A young Ozark pilot, returned form combat action 
overseas, Captain Walter A. Hardzog, Jr. was featured in an article, "Sixty 
Seconds Over Target," which recently appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.   
Captain Hardzog is now assigned to the 33rd Ferrying Group, based at Fairfax 
Field here, as tactical inspector and as a pilot.
  Captain Hardzog, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Hardzog, Sr., Newton 
Street, Ozark, was awarded the Air Medal and nine Oak Leaf clusters for flying 
50 bombing missions against the enemy in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. 
Overseas 10 months he was an operations officer for five months and flew large
transport planes for a troop carrier group over territory occupied by the 
Allies for two and a half months in addition to flying the 50 bombing missions 
in B-25 medium Mitchell bombers, 25 missions on which he was a flight leader.
  The magazine article is a story told by Lt. Carl V. Abrams who flew with 
Captain Hardzog as a bombardier on 40 of the bombing missions.
  Captain Hardzog attended Dale County High School at Ozark, attended the 
University of Alabama for three and a half years and had attended the George 
Washington University law school at Washington two and a half years when he 
entered the service on November 10, 1941 as an aviation cadet.


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