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2nd Lt. Carl Citron flew 33 missions in 8th Air Force

In U.S. Air Force, World War II on December 13, 2010 at 4:38 am

In his 20′s, Carl Citron is pictured after he graduated from flight school in Texas during World War II. Photo provided

2nd Lt. Carl Citron hadn’t been in England but a few weeks when his unit,
the 466 Bomb Group, 786 Squadron, of the 8th Air Force, was assigned to a low-level bombing mission in their B-24 Liberators against the German submarine pens at Brest along the coast of Nazi-occupied France.

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