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Eugene Zumwalt's "Targets of Opportunity" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk
Published March 20, 2008 at 11:07 AM PDT
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We have another aviation-themed story on this edition of Valley Writers Read. In "Targets of Opportunity," retired Fresno State English professor Eugene Zumwalt tells about the 27 combat missions he flew in a P-38 fighter plane during World War II.

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Franz Weinschenk
Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.
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