In this Jan. 24, 2020, photo, James Kuchwara, VFW Post #25 commander, gives flowers to Ann Spearmint in Scranton, Pa., to honor her brother, Staff Sgt. Joseph Eugene Prokop, who died in the waning months of World War II. Spearmint, 91, believed for more than seven decades that her brother died when Germans shot down his B-17 bomber near Frankfurt. Historians in Hanau, Germany, have recently discovered that Prokop, then 22, survived the downing of the bomber only to be captured by the Germans and summarily executed after a Gestapo officer learned one of his crewmates was Jewish. (Jason Farmer/The Times-Tribune via AP)
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