Ernie Warsaw
Published on Feb 9, 2018This is an interview of my Grandfather Ernest E. Warsaw
Dec.14th 1920 - May 19th 2012.
Navigator of the "Picklepuss" B-17.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Core as a cadet in December 1941, graduated as 2nd Lieutenant in October 1942 and joined the 100th Bomb Group. He flew 13 combat missions with the 8th Air Force and was shot down on August 17, 1943. He was a POW in Germany for two years.
He talks about the day he was shot down and some of his POW stories.
The interview was conducted at his factory,
Sheffield Furniture Corp. in Los Angeles, CA , October 29th 1998 by the USC Shoah Foundation.
