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German speaker to talk about WWII crash of Riverside pilot

Manfred Römer

Manfred Römer 2017.jpg — Manfred Römer

A German native with World War II ties to Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville is set to speak at the school Thursday. As a child living in Nazi Germany in 1945, Manfred Römer witnessed the crash of a U.S. Army Air Corps P-51 fighter plane in a heavily wooded area east of Hamburg.