The city of Groveport held its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Nov. 11 in Veterans Park on Main Street. Motts Military Museum Director Warren Motts (left) was the guest speaker and he told the gathered crowd at the ceremony the story of 96-year-old veteran Mike Pohorilla (seated at right). Pohorilla was B-17G navigator during World War II serving with the 385th Bomb Group in the 8th Air Force in England under the command of Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. During 1944 he completed 35 missions. His aircraft suffered severe battle damage on his 18th mission while bombing Germany’s major synthetic oil refinery. The crew walked away from the subsequent crash landing in liberated Belgium when they ran out of fuel.
