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Author Talk: Memoir of a WWII B-24 Bomber Pilot
John R. “Bob Hanzlik in Memoir of a World War II B-24 Pilot | The Story in His Own Words. This program will take place on Wednesday, November 20th, at 11:00 a.m. at the museum. The program is ...
York WWII vet, 100, to finally get his Purple Heart 80 years after his plane was shot down
Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...
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100-year-old WWII vet who trained pilots takes flight again in Savoy
WWII B-24 pilot George Hawthorne,100, Sidney, holds onto a bar as he sits behind the pilot during a media flight on a B-25 Mitchell bomber, The Berlin Express, at Willard Airport in Savoy on ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
"It was HUGE. I was completely amazed by its monstrous size, its four mighty engines," a pilot who flew the B-24 said upon first seeing the bomber. Winston Churchill picked an American-made B-24 ...