FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS — Its with great sadness, we learn the news that D-Day veteran Frank Agoglia, Glider Pilot had died. He was 101. As a 20-year-old, Frank Agoglia hadn’t even had the chance to fire a shot in World War II before his first taste of combat went sideways. His glider, towed from a U.S. base in England across the English Channel, split in half on impact with the ground in the middle of a farm field in France during the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy. About half of the 26 men aboard that glider were killed. Agoglia went on to soldier through fabled battles at Sainte-Mère-Église and La Fière Bridge and later at the Battle of Nijmegen and in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands. Born Dec. 2, 1923, in Brooklyn, Agoglia was the sixth of 11 children — and, one of seven brothers — born to Vincenzo and Rose Agoglia, Italian immigrants who ran a billiard parlor. “Every Day is Memorial Day” The Greatest Generations Foundation Web: www.TGGF.org (fb)

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS — Bill Patten, a World War II B-17 bomber pilot who flew 36 missions over Germany with the 15th Air Force, has died. He was 106. Patten had graduated from Findlay College in Findlay, Ohio (now The University of Findlay) in 1941 with a degree in aeronautical engineering. With that background, the Army Air Corps assigned him to flight school where he earned his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant. Trained to fly B-17 bombers, he was assigned to the 15th Air Force out of Italy where he flew 36 missions into Germany. After the war, Patten returned home to his wife Mabel and joined Butler Manufacturing in Kansas City, Missouri. He started as a sales engineer and climbed the ranks to become the sales manager of the equipment division in Minneapolis in 1958. He rose to the rank of senior vice president by the time he retired in 1982 and moved to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and later Osceola. “Every Day is Memorial Day” The Greatest Generations Foundation Web: www.TGGF.org (fb)