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BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. -- Ron Bolesta, son of the late Maj. Stanley Bolesta, talks to Maj. Harry Dyson, 2d Bomb Wing Director of Staff, while thumbing through the journal his father wrote while being held as a prisoner of war during World War II. Major Bolesta's B-26 was shot down over France in November of 1943 and was held in the German POW camp Stalag Luft 1 until he was liberated in 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chad Warren)

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