Thanks to a manuscript Beck wrote while hiding out in France in 1944, we know much of the story of this American fighter pilot.

Families with unrecovered loved ones should never give up.

In a first letter home after his release from a Japanese POW camp, a fighter pilot thanks his family for their prayers.

Personal correspondence offers an intimate glimpse of a world at war.

The Allies created the International Tracing Service (ITS), now referred to as the Arolsen Archives, to centralize postwar efforts to locate missing persons and help survivors discover the fate of family members in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust.