Chester Slowinski speaks during an interview in Wheaton, Illinois. Slowinski was a World War II veteran who served in the Army Air Corps and co-piloted a C47. In 1946, during a flight over South Korea, Slowinski’s plane caught on fire. The plane made a belly landing, Slowinski was injured, but still managed to rescue the pilot, Clyde Helton. | Tim Boyle/For the Sun-Times”