I believe he was a gunnery officer in the 303rd bomb group in England during the war.He did fly combat missions and the Nazis had a bounty on him if he was captured.Grounded as it would have been bad for the war effort.Jimmy Stewart had the same thing happen to him flying B-24s out of England.There is a really neat story of him as he was pulled of combat flying and was allowed to fly only a pokadotted formation ship(B24).The story goes that too many b-24s dropped out of the mission due to one thing or another so he flew the mission to help fill in one of the positions in a combat box.The mission was to france IIRC.Upon his return from the mission he was restricted from flying anymore combat missions.
It's good to see this thread every couple of years or so.