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STILL SHE CAME HOME
ENGLAND – With cables, wires and tubing hanging limp and frayed from her gaping underbelly, her radio room floor cone, and a jagged hole torn in her roof, the Flying Fortress “Dottie Jane” returned to her base, an Eighth Air Force bomber station in England, after a raid on Nazi war plants in Berlin. The war bird was torn by a direct hit by flak while over the target, and her radio operator vanished into thin air five miles above Germany. Pilot 1st Lt. Arthur R. Socolofsky of Chicago, Ill., brought the battered ship back.
Credit: Acme