CUMBERLAND — As if it happened yesterday, Jim Sterner recalled vivid details of an October 1945 crash in Luxembourg that killed a local man. At that time, Sterner was 22
A truck carrying five-gallon cans of gasoline collided with a steam engine near Hesperange in southern Luxembourg. “It blew up in flames,” recalled 100-year-old WWII veteran Jim Sterner. “I remember seeing burning bodies walking down the street.”