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sistacrumpet: Lieutenant Gordon Boyle My grandfather was a bombardier in a B-26 Marauderon a mission northwest of Aachen, Germany when his plane went down.  On 18th November 1944 B-26 43-34456 of the 586th Bomb Squadron was hit by flak under the right engine blowing the outer wing panel off. My mother was six months old when he died. Seventy years before anyone else, Danielle’s grandfather says, “Hey, girl. Hey.”
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Lieutenant Gordon Boyle

My grandfather was a bombardier in a B-26 Marauderon a mission northwest of Aachen, Germany when his plane went down.  On 18th November 1944 B-26 43-34456 of the 586th Bomb Squadron was hit by flak under the right engine blowing the outer wing panel off.

My mother was six months old when he died.

Seventy years before anyone else, Danielle’s grandfather says, “Hey, girl. Hey.”

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  1. smartasshat reblogged this from sistacrumpet and added:
    Seventy years before anyone else, Danielle’s grandfather says, “Hey, girl. Hey.”
  2. wordishness said: Thank you, sir.
  3. girl-detective said: Handsome hero!
  4. steelopus said: Hero.
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