VERNON DAHL WITH FAMOUS MUSTANG FIGHTER SQUADRON
An eighth air force fighter command station in England reports that T-Sgt. Vernon M. Dahl, of Okoboji, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Dahl, is a member of the eighth command P-51 Mustang group which recently passed the 450-mark in victories over Nazi planes, becoming the third American fighter group in the European theater of operations to make such a record. T. Sgt. Dahl is a flight chief mechanic in a squadron engineering section. He had been a student of auto mechanics before he entered the Army in November, 1940. He now supervises the work of other mechanics responsible for the combat performances of eight Mustang fighter planes in his flight.
Source: The Milford Mail, September 28, 1944
***Further Research:
Vernon Merritt Dahl was born Aug. 31, 1920 to Thurman August and Dorothy Ann Rowe Dahl. He died Sept. 23, 1960 and is buried in Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery, Miami, FL.
MSgt. Dahl served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II and Korea.
Source: ancestry.com
