On April 15, Collinsville High School social studies students were honored with an opportunity to meet Tony Foulds and hear his personal story of lifelong gratitude for a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) air crew that spared his life during World War II.
Foulds, 90, was visiting St. Louis this week from England. The journey involved his first airplane flight and his first time in the U.S.
His trip is the culmination of 82 years of gratitude and paying respect to 10 USAAF airmen who lost their lives when their B-17 Flying Fortress, named “Mi Amigo,” crashed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, in 1944…