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A U.S. Navy veteran<\/a> airman who served the nation in two wars took to the skies over the heartland again yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I live to fly,” Donald Muncy, 100, told Fox News Digital after soaring over the cornfields and town square of Urbana, Ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I was raised on aviation. It\u2019s always great to get in the air. It was a beautiful flight,” he said.<\/p>\n

MEET THE AMERICAN WHO POPULARIZED LATIN MUSIC, TITO PUENTE, WORLD WAR II NAVY VETERAN AND KAMIKAZE SURVIVOR<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Muncy, who served the United States in both World War II and in Korea, took cell phone video and snapped photos from the front seat of the open-cockpit 1942 Boeing biplane piloted by Dream Flights founder Darryl Fisher.<\/p>\n

The tandem took off from Grimes Municipal Airport in Urbana to celebrate the organization\u2019s 6,000th trip with an American World War II hero on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Boeing built about 10,000 of these airplanes from 1939 to 1944. Its sole purpose was to train World War II<\/a> aviators,” said Fisher.<\/p>\n

“If you were 18 or 19 in 1942 and joined the service, and you\u2019re going to be an airman and walked out to the airport for your first flight, there\u2019s a 90% chance this is the plane you were flying.”<\/p>\n

Dream Flights was joined by Veterans United Home Loans in the effort to “honor our veterans and enhance their lives with an adventure of a lifetime,” according to a release.<\/p>\n

Muncy\u2019s 20-minute flight was witnessed by a crowd of about 100 patriots and well-wishing spectators, not far from the Navy man\u2019s hometown of Springfield, where he graduated from high school in 1940 and still lives today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Muncy turns 101 on October 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He joined the U.S. Navy<\/a> out of high school and pursed his passion for flight in defense of the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was a teenage crewman aboard PBY Catalina patrol planes, which were used to search for enemy submarines, when war erupted on Dec. 7, 1941.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, JULY 24, 1998, WORLD WAR II EPIC \u2018SAVING PRIVATE RYAN\u2019 DEBUTS IN THEATERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Muncy was at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida.<\/p>\n

“I had just finished lunch and gone to the library to look at some books,” Muncy said, recalling the Day of Infamy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We were in the library when the radio came on. That was my knowledge of [the attack] right away. In the military you\u2019re always prepared for things. So everything on base [tightened] up after that.”<\/p>\n

Muncy served in the Navy throughout the entirety of the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was called to action again during the Korean War<\/a>, serving at the naval air station on the Aleutian islands in Alaska.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He later became an official with the Federal Aviation Administration and a licensed commercial pilot.<\/p>\n

Muncy appreciates the support he\u2019s received in later years as a wartime veteran and member of the Greatest Generation, including from the crowd that came to see him fly Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s even more appreciative that had the opportunity to serve the United States of America in uniform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was an honor to serve<\/a> the country. It really was. Being a product of the Depression, the Navy, the military gave me all my education and my opportunities and introduced me to great people to work with.”<\/p>\n

Fisher, his pilot on Tuesday, founded Dream Flights in 2011, after barnstorming across the country with his dad, Bill, in his father\u2019s biplane.<\/p>\n

MEET THE AMERICAN WHO \u2018WON THE WAR FOR US’: ANDREW JACKSON HIGGINS, WORLD WAR II NEW ORLEANS BOATBUILDER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“We had to make 15 fuel stops along the way,” said Fisher, who operates assisted living facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We had this idea to call a local care facility and bring a veteran out on a flight, just as a lark. I had no idea this is where it would go.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I was on cloud nine when I got home. My wife said, \u2018Why should we stop doing this?\u2019”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now given Dream Flights to thousands of veterans. The response from the elderly American heroes is oftentimes overwhelming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The experience of one veteran will never be forgotten. <\/p>\n

Eddie Lampken, a World War II Army veteran from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, was in a wheelchair when he departed on his Dream Flight in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We put him in the airplane and he was absolutely overjoyed. He walked away from the airplane and didn\u2019t use the wheelchair again for five years. His son Dave said, \u2018Uou gave me my father back.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Dream Flights (dreamflightrs.org) remains an entirely volunteer-run organization.<\/p>\n

“I get paid in satisfaction,” said Fisher. “And I\u2019m overpaid.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/navy-veteran-airman-age-100-flies-again-vintage-world-war-ii-pilot-training-biplane <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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