Miguel Encinias/1

Miguel Encinias, 20, poses at an airfield in Palermo-Sicily in September of 1943. During World War II, he started by serving with the 45th Infantry Division in North Africa and on the European front. He later transferred to the 52nd Bomb Squadron, the 29th Bomb Group and then the 20th Air Force. He spent 15 months in a German POW camp after his plane was shot down. Encinias served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Encinias grew up in Las Vegas, New Mexico.