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| Tango01 | 29 May 2016 3:54 p.m. PST |
… 'final mission'. "A retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant who returned to England this month for the first time in 71 years to visit the country he defended during World War II has died during his "final mission." Melvin Rector, 94, served in England with the 96th Bomb Group in 1945 as a radio operator and gunner on B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, including on the Memphis Belle, the first heavy bomber to compete its 25-mission tour of duty with its crew intact. Operating out of RAF Snetterton Heath in Norfolk, Rector flew eight combat missions over Germany during the spring of the final year of the War, with his plane coming back one time dotted with bullet holes on its wings…"
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 Stosstruppen  | 29 May 2016 7:08 p.m. PST |
There was a correction to the story. He was not a member of the Memphis Belle's crew. |
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is back from Council of Five Nations.