Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, Kentucky's adjutant general, presents a posthumous Prisoner of War Medal to the sons and daughter of a late Kentucky Air National Guard Pilot, Capt. Merlin R. "Bob" Kehrer, during a ceremony April 16, at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky. Kehrer was a young lieutenant and P-51 pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps when his plane was shot down over enemy territory during World War II. He spent 14 months as a prisoner in a German POW camp.