Clark County Press, Neillsville, March 2, 2005, Page 14 Transcribed by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon. Index of "Oldies" Articles First Lieut. Verland Lakosky, of Loyal, has been recommended for the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has already been awarded the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Cluster awards. These awards have come to him in the many flights over Germany. It is now known that he took part in the effort to get supplies to the paratroopers who were isolated for eight days at Arnhem in Holland. In this effort, Lieut. Lakosky said, “I flew my bomber at tree-top level and could see the delight on their faces as we passed over them.” The Liberator bomber, of which he was pilot, showed many holes in the fuselage from small arms. Lieut. Lakosky took part in many raids on Germany’s oil refineries and ammunition dumps, especially at Cologne. His longest mission was 8 ½ hours over Munich. “We could tell how important a particular target was to the Germans by the amount of flak they put up,” said Lakosky, “Enemy flak was deadly enough, causing us once to return to our base on 1 ½ engines.”