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Bringing home Uncle Dud 75 years after the WWII pilot saved nine crew mates
[Omaha World-Herald] In 1944, Uncle Dud’s bomber went down somewhere over Romania or Bulgaria. His B-24 had been part of a massive bombing mission in Romania that was met with German fighters in the air and Romanian anti-aircraft fire from the ground. Dud’s plane was hit. With Dud at the controls, his nine crew members parachuted out and survived. But neither the aircraft nor the pilot was recovered.Dud was declared missing. Then dead. He left behind a widow, pregnant with their only child, a son who would never know his father. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-12 |
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