Geisert's home office is decorated with photographs, documents and mementos from his service years, including a model of the plane he few in the war, a B-24 bomber.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
TOP: "This is the only record we could recover from the Germans. I'm sure there were more because I was also fingerprinted." BOTTOM: "TONAPH, NEVADA"; Robert Geisert, Dorothy Geisert, Waren Rustad, Jimmy Kirraine, Jean Kirraine, John Bowen."
SPECIAL TO BLADE
Young Robert Geisert.
SPECIAL TO BLADE
The Western Union Telegram Dorothy Gesiert received informing her that Robert was fficially missing.
SPECIAL TO BLADE
Robert Geisert in his home office, decorated with photographs, documents and mementos from his service years
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
Photo portrait of young Dorothy Geisert.
SPECIAL TO BLADE
Robert Geisert's home office is decorated with photographs, documents and mementos from his service years, including a model of the plane he few in the war, a B-24 bomber.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
Robert Geisert left the Air Force a 1st Lieutenant after serving in Italy during the war. His plane exploded over Hungary, where Mr. Geisert was captured, in 1944. Eventually, he was transferred to a prison in Poland then on to Germany until being liberated in 1945.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
Robert Geisert,, a former World War II pilot and prisoner of war, describes the way he and other POW's used to hide their personal effects, including the pictured journal, from the Germans.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
Robert Geisert, a former World War II pilot and prisoner of war, describes the way he and other POW's used to hide their personal effects from the Germans.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
Lynne Shoup helped her father Robert Geisert a former World War II pilot and prisoner of war, to return another solider's bracelet from WWII.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image
Robert Geisert, 93, of Oregon, a former World War II pilot and prisoner of war, left, discusses his time in the war, and having finally been able to return another soldier's bracelet, mistakenly given to him during WWII, with the help of his daughter Lynne Shoup, right.
The Blade/Katie Rausch
Buy This Image