Airman returns home more than 73 years after being shot down over Italy
By: Ashley Bunch, June 23, 2017
Staff Sgt. Byron Nelson, an airman with the Iowa National Guard, is finally returning home — more than 73 years after being shot down on a bombing mission during World War II, the Iowa National Guard said in a press release.
Nelson served with the 721st Bomber Squadron, 450th Bomber Group, 15th Air Force, U.S. Army Air Corps, and was last seen April 25, 1944, over Varese, Italy, when he and nine other crew members were shot down, according to the release.
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