Grand Island Dispatch, December 28, 2007

World War II veteran Merle Dommell at 83 standing under the bomb bay of a B-17 Flying Fortress and again as a young airman during the war while fl ying that type of aircraft in the European Theater.

Above: His son, Lt. Col. Robert Dommell, while stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia in 1999. Below: Merle’s grandson, U.S. Army Infantryman Brian Dommell, holding a Javelin Missile in Iraq. (photo collage by Michael J. Owen)