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  • Jostad, Glen B-17 Missions and Loss of Plane

    Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German submarine pens in France.

  • Jostad, Glen Bailing Out and Being Captured

    Glen Jostad bailed out of his damaged Boeing B-17 heavy bomber and had a German fighter pass twice around him with the pilot waving at him the seco

  • Jostad, Glen Becoming an Airman

    Glen Jostad had an abbreviated basic training before beginning radio training at Scott Field [Annotator's Note: near Belleville], Illinois.

  • Jostad, Glen Early Life

    Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression.

  • Jostad, Glen Final Thoughts

    Glen Jostad describes his terrible experience during eight days transit from one Stalag to another.

  • Jostad, Glen Going Home

    Following their liberation, Glen Jostad and over 100,000 other POWs were gather together and eventually flown out for repatriation.

  • Jostad, Glen Interrogation

    Glen Jostad was taken to Frankfurt, Germany for interrogation after his capture by the Germans. It was a rough time, but he was not tortured.

  • Jostad, Glen POW Discipline

    Glen Jostad was first held in a German prisoner of war camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug, Germany, near today’s Šilutė, Lith

  • Jostad, Glen POW Food

    Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI

  • Jostad, Glen POW Ingenuity

    Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable.

  • Jostad, Glen PTSD

    Glen Jostad reveals the terrors of dreams he suffered resulting from his years of being a prisoner of war held by the Germans.

  • Jostad, Glen Reflections

    Glen Jostad saw a major impact on the civilian population as a result of the war.

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