The chances for personnel aboard B-24s surviving 25 missions into Germany in World War II were about 10 percent.St./Sgt. tail gunner Charles “Spec” Tyson of New Bern only made it through 22 missions, but he did survive – after being shot down in August 1944 and serving in a POW camp until he and others were liberated in April 1945. Along the way, they were forced on a 600-mile winter “Death March Through Germany.”His son and namesake, Charles [...]
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