Bo Cline, 92, a former ex-prisoner of war and commander of the Chattanooga chapter, sits at the front of the room on Saturday, April 14, 2012, at the annual meeting of the American Ex-Prisoner of War group held at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel. Membership numbers for the national, state and local groups are dwindling as veterans reach their 90s.
Photo by
Ashlee Culverhouse /Chattanooga Times Free Press .
published Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Stories this photo appears in:
His plane was on fire and going down fast, but the pilot aimed the nose north, desperately trying to make it to Sweden and out of Nazi territory. Erhardt Barnes was the radio operator and gunner in that B-17 Flying Fortress on Oct. 6, 1944.
