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Vienna_Hokie

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Found a picture of my mom's cousin with his bomber crew from WWII last week


didn't even know he existed, had never met him or even heard about him.

A couple google searches later and I had found out what bomber group and crew he was with, when he was awarded the DFC and a list of every mission his bomber group flew during the war with formation charts and all sorts of information put together by the families of members of the groups.

Amazing stuff, spent hours reading through it, digging into details, reading diaries from members of the squadron, etc. Most amazing things was reading the accounts of things that were just daily work to them that we now know as major events like D-Day.

Posted: 03/20/2017 at 5:28PM


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  Found a picture of my mom's cousin with his bomber crew from WWII last week -- Vienna_Hokie 03/20/2017 5:28PM
  You should've seen it in color... -- Freddyburg Hokie 03/21/2017 10:47AM
  My dad in WW2. I have this book of incredible memories. -- 48zip 03/21/2017 09:23AM
  Dang. SHAREOTD. +1945. -- bourbonstreet 03/20/2017 11:48PM
  Cool story I discovered a WWII pic of my grandfather setting up a . -- No1Hokie 03/20/2017 10:50PM
  Great stuff. Thanks for sharing it. ** -- reestuart 03/21/2017 09:09AM
  My wife's Dad flew bombers over Germany, The plane was the -- VaAkita 03/20/2017 10:21PM
  Can you post the pic or at least give me the name of the bomber? ** -- IB4TECH 03/20/2017 10:02PM
  Indeed the greatest. Brings to mind that in the last year -- IB4TECH 03/20/2017 10:01PM
  Awesome. A few years ago I did a little googling about my uncle's infantry -- Hokie360 03/20/2017 8:18PM
  Shun ** -- Brown Water 03/20/2017 7:11PM
  Post it ** -- HokieDan95 03/20/2017 6:06PM
  It is truly astonishing how flatly courageous those people of that era were -- PhotoHokieNC 03/20/2017 5:39PM
  There were millions of them. At the time they were ordinary people with a -- 81_Hokie 03/20/2017 7:04PM
  All you have to do is look at the enlistment swell of 2001 -- typed by ben 03/21/2017 07:02AM
  Not to forget the countless who have gone back 3-4 times. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/21/2017 11:42AM
  One of my groomsmen has been 9 between Iraq and Afghanistan -- typed by ben 03/21/2017 12:30PM
  Yep... -- chumley 03/20/2017 11:46PM
  Millennials are not the fault of the 60s lifestyle. The 60s kids were -- PhotoHokieNC 03/20/2017 7:31PM
  Interesting concept there, photo. Deep thoughts. -- CPRVHokie 03/20/2017 7:45PM
  You left out humble and hitworthy. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/20/2017 8:11PM

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