Lt. Bruce, right, talks with his original copilot, Lt. William Brown. Brown was injured prior to the Kassel Mission and removed from the crew.
Hometown: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Shot down at Bebra on 9/27/44 in B-24 'Bonnie Vee' #42-95128, Prisoner of War (POW).
Source: American Air Museum in Britain
"We were up at this hour for breakfast and then to the Briefing Area. We had a full load of gas so we knew it was going to be a long, long flight. The ship had a full load of 1,000-pound bombs and all the .50-caliber machine gun ammunition we could squeeze in."
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