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Twelve-year-old Walter Hassenpflug loved airplanes. He belonged to the Hitler Youth modeling club that got together one evening a week at the museum center to build replicas of German, American and RAF planes.&nbsp;He knew them all and could identify them down to their divisions when they flew overhead. He didn’t know about the secret <em>Sturmgruppen…</em>

September 11, 1944 was a busy day for the 445th, but especially for <a href="https://www.kasselmission.org/crews/700th/bruce">William Bruce's crew</a>. Flying their plane from the US, <a href="https://www.kasselmission.org/bonnie-vee-story">the Bonnie Vee</a>, named for Bruce's wife Vyrlin, they were badly hit over enemy territory on a mission to hit oil targets at Hanover…