Marchildon, Phil

MLB pitcher. "A gunner and officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, Marchildon was shot down and spent nine months in a German prison as a POW. He served from November 1942 to July 1945. He came back to home and major league baseball a grim, alienated, broken man struggling with shattered nerves. After the war, his best year was 1947, when he went 19-9. Marchildon was an inaugural member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983." --baseball-reference.com.