Victor Emanuel Bittner

Era: World War II

Military Branch: Air Force

Mr. Bittner served the Army Air Force between June 1942 and January of 1946.

Mr. Bittner was Captain in the 5th Army Air Corps, 13th Bomb Squadron, 3rd Bomb group nicknamed the ferocious “Grim Reepers”.
Victor Emanuel Bittner was born on May 10, 1920 in Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

Mr. Bittner completed formal education in 1938 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin. In 1940 he graduated from Junior College at Bethany Lutheran College and Seminary in Mankato, MN. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Education at Eau Claire Teachers College (now UW-Eau Claire) in 1942. Upon completion of World War II, Victor attended the University of Minnesota and Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn., where he completed his Specialist Degree in Educational Administration.

Mr. Bittner died on September 2, 2007 in River-View Hospital in Crookston, MN.

Mr. Bittner also received citations for the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with nine bathe stars and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one bronze star.

Source: Duluth News Tribune, September 6, 2007.