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An E-mail from Mike Luce, son of Wendell Luce Bombardier (POW)
My father is standing in the second row on the far left. I have attached another file of him, taken when he was an aviation cadet. The plane in the photograph is not the one that this crew was … Continue reading
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B17 – Patches Crew
The pilot who shot “Patches” down : 1st Lieut. Adolph Gluntz (Addi) – JG-26-7 (Knights Cross & Oak Leaves) He had 71 victory’s of which 21 were on 4 engined bombers. He flew a FW-190 B17 “Patches” Constructer Boeing … Continue reading
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Report about the recovery B-17 Patches
After a co-worker of mine (Michel Truszkowski) started talking with his neigbour, World War 2 came up. The neighbour reminded when he was a little kid, a plane carsh in Testelt on 17/08/1943. This happend on 500 meters of his … Continue reading
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