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Ohhh..that's not good. Hopefully some people were able to get out..
My grandfather was a bombardier in a B17 over Europe from late '42 through the end of the war. He signed up on Dec. 8, 1941 and went for pilot but missed it by a few points on his tests.
I have a number of items including his wings, silk survival maps, letters to my grandmother, dog tags and a diary he kept of his missions.
The diary stops around mission 22 or 23 when he, the pilot and radio man were the only ones to make it back to England alive. The crew was the same he had been with since training so it hit the survivors really hard, so he couldn't write about it anymore.
He didn't talk about his experiences very often, but when he did, he had some very interesting stories.
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