William Diehl
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Having falsified his age to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps at seventeen, Diehl served as a ball-turret gunner on B-24 Liberators, completing twenty-four missions over Germany and earning the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart and an Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters. After the war he built a reputation as a photographer and journalist before turning to fiction at fifty, drawing heavi…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources