‘Ortiz’s War’ depicts pursuits of World War II commando

For journalist Katie S. Sanders, the foray into her family’s World War II lore came to her, like many others, “tucked in the attic.”

Her grandfather, Lt. Murray Simon, seldom spoke of wartime experiences, let alone the details regarding being shot down in a B-24 on a secret mission one month prior to D-Day.

All that was left was a piece of that downed plane — an antenna cover loop —…