From Mending Marines to Sketching the Space Shuttle
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Centenarian Corpsman, Prolific Artist
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Episode #833 of Hometown Heroes, airing April 13-18, 2024, continues the story of 100-year-old Bill DeGeneres, with more memories from World War II, in addition to his Honor Flight experience, and the decades he spent as a technical illustrator that led to his artwork being included in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution.
Bill DeGeneres holding a book that features his painting of the Space Shuttle. For more photos, visit the Hometown Heroes facebook page.
If you missed the first part of Bill’s story, featuring his childhood memories from southern California, his decision to enlist in the Navy at age 17, and his early memories as a corpsman with the 3rd Marine Division, you can listen to all of that on episode #832 of Hometown Heroes here.
