Donald Bohler, ME 62, was awarded the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration given by the French government. Bohler, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, was honored for his exemplary personal courage and dedication to the memory of fallen veterans. In 2009, he located the surviving flight leader and family members of a fallen U.S. fighter pilot who was to be memorialized by the French government alongside French veterans. More recently, he was asked to help find the families of 10 World War II Air Force crewmen whose B-17 crashed landed and captured by German forces off the coast of Noirmoutier, France; once Bohler located the men’s descendants, they were invited to attend ceremonies in the village marking the 70th anniversary of the crash. The Legion of Honor is a merit-based order established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.
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