Rudy Bergstrom, back row center, poses with five of the many Air Force cadets he taught to fly at a school in Tucson, Arizona during the war. He was just 20 years old when he began training pilots in World War II. (Photos courtesy Rudy Bergstrom)
April 8, 2008
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S-2 nipped pilot's finger, but not career
Rudy Bergstrom, 85, bolted upright in his chair when he saw the photograph in the Inter Lake of the old S-2 steam engine returning home to Somers.