Jack Curtis (World War II aviator)
Jack C. Curtis was a B24 nagivator during World War II who spent over eight months as a prisoner of war. His exploits were chronicled, along with those of his friend and fellow POW, Lawrence Jenkins, in the 2007 book, Eagles Wings, An Uncommon Story of World War II, by Andrew Layton.
A lifelong resident of Battle Creek, Jack Curtis was born on July 26, 1923. He left his nighttime job at Kelloggs to enlist in the Army Air Corps when World War II broke out. Assigned to Aviation Cadet school, Curtis would become a Navigator on B24 Liberators with the 376th Bomb Group, stationed in Southern Italy.
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