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Veteran's History Project: Verlin E. Bruns

Verlin E. Bruns

Corporal

U.S. Air Force

1951-1955

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Sidney, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

The United States Air Force came into being in September 1947. It evolved from the Army Air Forces a few years after the end of hostilities in World War II.

Setting up a department or branch of the U.S. Armed Forces is no easy thing.

In July 1951, the Korean War was being fought. North Korea had invaded South Korea....

 

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