A tale of two diaries
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. -- The Eighth Air Force Museum received a significant donation of World War II history June 9 when Joy Bolesta, wife of the late Stanley Bolesta, donated the journal her husband kept while held captive in a German prisoner of war camp. The journal, which has stayed in the Bolesta family since his liberation in 1945, contains a detailed, hand-written account of life as a POW in a camp known as Stalag Luft 1 during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joanna M. Kresge)