Memorial Service for Walter Krepling at Woodlawn Cementary
Thursday November 08, Walter Krepling Memorial Service KREPLING, Walter Jr. (Walt) - July 23, 1921 to November 3, 2012 Walt Krepling grew up in South Ozone Park in the borough of Queens, NY where he excelled at baseball and basketball. As a member of Mike Nelson #39;s Richmond Hill Dodgers in the Queens-Nassau Baseball Alliance, Walt ran up a 27 game hit streak. Walt was invited to Spring Training by the Brooklyn Dodgers, but the war intervened. Walt joined the Army Air Corps, and, after significant amounts of basic training followed by flight training, qualified for assignment as a copilot of a B-17 bomber. On November 16, 1943 Walt flew in his first combat mission out of Tunis, North Africa with a group of 98 other B-17s headed for Le Tube France. They successfully bombed the target but ran into significant flak and 15 or more ME 109 fighter airplanes. Walt soon was promoted to pilot and flew many missions where he was responsible for the men and the airplane. By May 6, 1944 (less than six months) Walt had completed 51 missions and was proud to say that he had brought the men and the airplane home each and every time. (Sometimes pretty banged up) Walt moved on to the Pacific Theater where he served as part of the Second Emergency Rescue Squadron based at Palawan in the Philippine Islands before becoming the personal pilot for Major General Paul Wurtsmith, Commander of the Thirteenth Air Force for the last part of his military career. Walt received numerous medals and awards ...From:Gabriel RoldosViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:20More inMusic<\/p>\n
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