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Hastler also worked with the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor organization to the CIA.
Congressman Mike Turner, R-Dayton, will present the award to Hastler next week.
Known as the “Carpetbaggers,” Hastler served as a gunner on the warplane that few on secret night missions from Harrington Field, England, to supply the French resistance and drop parachutists in preparation for D-Day, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
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