Record 1003/2101 Catalog Record Gallery #5 --Home Page Website Home Search Date: 1943 Description  Carl Kostol. Posing (middle, back row) with a B-25 bomber crew in training in 1943. Just after graduation from Baker High School in May 1940, National Guard Co. F, of which he was a member, was activated. He served as a private in the Army until he applied for and was accepted into the Army Air Corps. In 1944 he flew B-25 bombers on 37 bombing missions. On that last mission he was shot down over the Yangtze River. Separated from the other seven members of his crew, it took Chinese guerillas almost a month to sneak him 200 miles through Japanese-occupied territory across the combat front. His crew also got safely back to their base. After the war Kostol studied medicine. Upon graduation he spent his career as a physician in Baker City.

Gallery #5 PEOPLE, SCHOOLS, ORGANIZATIONS, CHURCHES -Kostol, Dr. Carl. Carl Kostol, middle, back row. 009\200792.JPG COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: Credit Baker County Library, Baker City, Oregon

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