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  • Remembering "those poor bastards"

    06/07/2012 7:16:37 PM PDT · by giant sable · 31 replies
    Ricochet.com ^ | June 6, 2012 | Michael S. Malone
    Sixty-eight years ago this week, my father, Ralph “Pat” Malone, bored with being confined to barracks with the rest of the 401st bomb group, sneaked off his base at Deenthorpe, England, and rode a bicycle into the nearby village to a pub to meet a local girl he was sweet on. Hours later, as he rode back, he noticed that all of the lights on the base were on and, hidden behind a rise in the landscape, the 36 B-17s were already revving up.