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U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Haldane Lamberton, right, adjutant general of the Kentucky National Guard, presents a posthumous prisoner of war medal to Sterling P. Owen IV on behalf of Owen’s late uncle, U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jack Henry Owen, during a ceremony in Cynthiana, Ky., Nov. 13, 2023. Gen. Owen, who served in the Kentucky Air National Guard for more than 24 years, was piloting a B-17 Flying Fortress over Hamburg, Germany, on July 25, 1943, when the aircraft was shot down.
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CYNTHIANA, Ky. - U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Haldane Lamberton, right, adjutant general of the Kentucky National Guard, presents a posthumous prisoner of war medal to Sterling P. Owen IV on behalf of Owen’s late uncle, U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jack Henry Owen, during a ceremony in Cynthiana, Ky., Nov. 13, 2023. Gen. Owen, who served in the Kentucky Air National Guard for more than 24 years, was piloting a B-17 Flying Fortress over Hamburg, Germany, on July 25, 1943, when the aircraft was shot down.


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