One Circa 1987 Tape One Gutsy WWII Stalag 17-B POW One Determined Daughter One All-Important Question Answered Equals One Hell of a Story Through a series of seemingly innocuous small events occurring at the height of World War II, 24-year-old Air Force Staff Sergeant Frank D. Dean found himself flying numerous combat missions in the European Theater as a replacement crew member for the 95th Bomb Group. His last mission was the Black Week Münster run when he was shot down on October 10, 1943. After bailing out of his burning B-17—the Fritz Blitz—he was greeted by the Gestapo as well as several crabby villagers who were waiting for him on the ground. Captured before he could even get out of his parachute harness, he spent the rest of World War II as a Nazi Germany prisoner of war held at the infamous Stalag 17-B prison camp. His experience is destined to be indelibly inked as a must-read allegorical American story of survival reminding us all to remember.