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Old 09-22-2018, 05:30 PM
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Battle Axe
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Thanks for the info. I just finished reading my Dad's letters to Mom in 1946-7 when he was sent to Germany to clean up the leftovers of the German airplanes. They were afraid that the Nazis would rise up and try to fight again, so they destroyed all of Hitler's planes and some of ours too. It was too costly to send them back home. So they stripped the expensive parts and blew up the rest.

He was actually an observer for one day at the War trials. He sent home his ticket to get in and a map of where he sat, which was the press box. Lots of history in those letters.
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