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James K. Gribble grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from high school in 1941. Just a few months after that the draft age was lowered to eighteen. He was drafted, and sent to fight in World War II.

"We flew our missions out of Benghazi into Greece, Italy, Southern France, Austria, Hungry, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia," Mr. Gribble said. "We got shot up over Munich."

He took some flak on that mission, and received a Purple Heart.

"In my head and my hip. Call it superficial," Mr. Gribble "It bled a lot. I thought I was gonna die, but I didn't."

Mr. Gribble's crew flew their first missions out of a base in Northern Africa in 1944. In all he did thirty-one missions during and after the war. Twenty-one were combat missions. Ten were supply missions to POW camps after the war.

"They found us a base in Lecce, Italy," Mr. Gribble said. "That's Mussolini's Naval base, and our whole group moved there."

James Gribble is ninety-four years old now, but he can talk for hours about flying over central Europe when he was nineteen.

"i was young, and I didn't think nothing would ever happen to me," Mr. Gribble said.

He came back from the war, and worked for G-E for several years. When he was in his mid thirty's he moved to Chattanooga to open his own electrical supply business. He's been here ever since.