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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator

Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a lifetime

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