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Luray War Hero Wove Hope With Crochet In POW Camp
Bill Paschal, nose gunner on a B-24, parachuted into the Danube after a 1944 Vienna raid and spent nine months in Stalag IV B in Stettin Germany. There he crocheted nearly 50 hats and gloves from unraveled sweater yarn to comfort fellow prisoners during a brutal winter and Black March eviction.
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