“He was the handsomest man I had ever seen, and nice had good manners, showed me a good time,” said Norma Sue Stephens.
The 95-year-old Stephens had six children with Victor Phelps, a fighter pilot in WWII.
“He had all kinds of medals,” Stephens said. “But he was very modest. He didn’t really want to talk about it.”
Victor Phelps died in 1976.
Over the years, his relatives discovered he was a true military hero.
“We started digging, it could be a movie what he did, and the way he came up through the ranks,” Phelps said.