"Bo" Foster (October 9, 1911 – March 21, 2011)[1] was an American soldier who flew captured Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring from Austria to Germany for interrogation by the 7th Army.
[2][3] For his actions in World War II, Foster was awarded both the Silver Star and the Légion d'Honneur.
[2][3] Göring was convicted of war crimes, but in October 1946 before he could be hanged by the Nuremberg authorities, he committed suicide by taking a cyanide capsule someone had smuggled to him.
[2] By October 1945, Foster was back in the United States, having flown seventy reconnaissance combat missions during his wartime service.
[4] A native of Richmond, Virginia, Foster graduated in 1937 with a degree in English from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.