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The Greatest Generation Is Down Another Hero
… home on Sunday. He was 95. Hack—better known as Bill or Billy—packed union cards for more than 40 years. He belonged to the UAW, Pile Drivers and Paducah Ironworkers Local 782, the latter from 1945 until he retired as business manager in … on May 6, 1921, Hack grew up in the Great Depression. Like thousands of other western Kentuckians, he went north seeking work. The teen hired in at Chrysler and eagerly joined the UAW. He became a union activist. After Hack clocked out at … up pretty badly before we even got to the target." Hack, clad in a leather helmet and electrically-heated flight suit, was right waist gunner, firing a .50 caliber machine gun through an open window. He explained: "The temperature was well below …