Submitted by Fran Olson Gustafson 1965 <fgustafson917@gmail.com> on 06/Jun/2018 184.103.190.149
Victor I. Frager was born in Newburgh, NY in 1923. From an early edge he would look to the sky and spot planes he loved. He attended Newburgh Free Academy. In 1940, when he was 17, having forged his birth certificate, he went to Canada and received his wings with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He wanted to get an early start fighting the Nazis. In 1941 when the US entered WW II, he returned to the US and joined the US Army Air Force. He was stationed in Pensacola, Florida for gunnery school. In 1943 he was shipped to Italy with the 777th Bomb Group. There he piloted combat missions in a B-24, against Nazi targets. He was a decorated pilot, one of the youngest ever to get his wings, and survived many more missions than the famed Memphis Bell. After the war, he graduated from Lehigh University and went to work on his MBA at Columbia University in New York. Mr. Frager was married in 1958 to Dorothy and remained married for 60 years. They had two children, James and Colin. Mr. Frager worked in the New York metro area as an Executive Career Coach for 35 years He was a founder of this industry and successful started his own company when he turned sixty, retiring at age 80. He lived with his family in the Atlanta area where he survived by his wife Dorothy, sons James and Colin and grandson, Jack, his sister Shirley Cohen, and nephews Robert Israel of Saratoga Springs, Dr. Mark Israel and niece Leslie Goldhar as well as many other family members. He will be buried with full military honors at Gerald E Solomon National Cemetery on June 6th, at 2:00 p.m.
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Victor I. Frager was born in Newburgh, NY in 1923. From an early edge he would look to the sky and spot planes he loved. He attended Newburgh Free Academy. In 1940, when he was 17, having forged his birth certificate, he went to Canada and received his wings with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He wanted to get an early start fighting the Nazis. In 1941 when the US entered WW II, he returned to the US and joined the US Army Air Force. He was stationed in Pensacola, Florida for gunnery school. In 1943 he was shipped to Italy with the 777th Bomb Group. There he piloted combat missions in a B-24, against Nazi targets. He was a decorated pilot, one of the youngest ever to get his wings, and survived many more missions than the famed Memphis Bell. After the war, he graduated from Lehigh University and went to work on his MBA at Columbia University in New York. Mr. Frager was married in 1958 to Dorothy and remained married for 60 years. They had two children, James and Colin. Mr. Frager worked in the New York metro area as an Executive Career Coach for 35 years He was a founder of this industry and successful started his own company when he turned sixty, retiring at age 80. He lived with his family in the Atlanta area where he survived by his wife Dorothy, sons James and Colin and grandson, Jack, his sister Shirley Cohen, and nephews Robert Israel of Saratoga Springs, Dr. Mark Israel and niece Leslie Goldhar as well as many other family members. He will be buried with full military honors at Gerald E Solomon National Cemetery on June 6th, at 2:00 p.m.