Gladwin’s Harry Riopelle poses at the gravesite of David Fleming Jr. with the display he created after purchasing a collection of antiques and finding an envelope containing a detailed account of Fleming’s exploits as an airman during World War II.
GLADWIN
Arandom envelope that was part of an antique collection turned into quite a project for Gladwin’s Harry Riopelle.
The envelope contained newspaper clippings and personal letters regarding the wartime actions of David Fleming, a Jackson man who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Riopelle, 80, said he learned from the fragile, aged documents that Fleming had ejected from a B-17 F…
