Editing Norman Lear (section)

==Military career==
Lear enlisted in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] in September 1942.<ref name=FamilySearch-WWIIEnlistment-1942>{{cite web| title=Norman M Lear – United States World War II Army Enlistment Records| url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8LF-8H6| website=FamilySearch| access-date=October 16, 2014 |url-access=subscription}}{{void|Fabrickator|comment|no working archive links found, example:  https://web.archive.org/web/20231206195121/https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8LF-8H6 are not working}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He served in the [[Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II|Mediterranean theater]] as a radio operator and gunner on [[Boeing]] [[B-17 Flying Fortress]] bombers with the [[772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron|772nd Bomb Squadron]], [[463rd Operations Group|463rd Bomb Group]] of the [[Fifteenth Air Force]]; in a 2014 interview, he talked about bombing Germany.<ref name=WNYC-Lopate-2014 /> He flew 52 combat missions and received the [[Air Medal]] with four oak leaf clusters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/norman-lear-producer-family-jeffersons-dead-101/story?id=101670832|title=Norman Lear, producer of 'All in the Family,' 'The Jeffersons,' dead at 101|website=ABC News|last=Iervolino|first=Stephen|date=December 6, 2023|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206195106/https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/norman-lear-producer-family-jeffersons-dead-101/story?id=101670832|url-status=live}}</ref> Lear was discharged from the Army Air Forces in 1945.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/norman-lear-dead-obituary-7501941|title=Norman Lear, Prolific TV Writer and Producer Who Created 'All in the Family,' Dead at 101|website=People|last=Sands|first=Nicole|date=December 6, 2023|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206195114/https://people.com/norman-lear-dead-obituary-7501941|url-status=live}}</ref> His World War II crew members are featured in the book ''Crew Umbriago'' by Daniel P. Carroll.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/11/06/tail-gunner-we-were-a-crazy-bunch-of-guys/ |url-access=subscription |title=Tail-Gunner: 'We Were a Crazy Bunch of Guys' |date=November 6, 1991 |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |access-date=December 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206195112/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/11/06/tail-gunner-we-were-a-crazy-bunch-of-guys/ |archive-date=December 6, 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref>