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SERVICE MEN and WOMEN.
Lumir J. Stepanek has been promoted to grade of sergeant in England, Stepanek has been serving as a tall gunner on a B-17 of the 305th Bombardment group of the Eighth AAF.
During the last 12 months of the war in Europe, the famous Eighth air force crews shot down 5,000 German planes and dropped an average of one ton of bombs every minute.
Sgt. Stepanek is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stepaneck, route 2.
Source: Cedar Rapids Tribune, June 21, 1945
Lumir Joseph Stepanek was born Nov. 17, 1924 to Edward and Tillie Zalesky Stepanek. He died Jan. 3, 1988 and is buried in Czech National Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
