Sidney M. Ulan | Men's store owner, 86

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Sidney M. Ulan, 86, formerly of Wallingford, a decorated World War II pilot and retired men's store owner, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday at Maris Grove, a retirement community in Glen Mills.

Mr. Ulan graduated from Chester High School and attended Temple University. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps in Europe. He volunteered to be a bomber pilot but instead was assigned to fly C-47 cargo planes. His experience dropping paratroops behind enemy lines was included in historian Stephen Ambrose's book  D-Day: June 6, 1944 . Mr. Ulan also supplied paratroops trapped at Bastogne, delivered gasoline for Gen. George S. Patton's tanks, and flew wounded soldiers to hospitals in England. He was awarded...