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World War II. Sept. 27, 1944. 35 B-24 Liberator bombers. 150 German Fokke-Wulf 190 and Messerschmitt 109 fighter planes. 6 minutes. 25 bombers shot down. Over 30 fighters lost.
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Episode 10: Tim Boomhower shares stories of his father, navigator/POW Edmund Boomhower (opens the original)
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"The FW-190 was a beautiful plane, except when it was shooting at you," Tim Boomhower recalls his father, Edmund Boomhower, saying. Tim's dad was the navigator on "Old Baldy," piloted by Bill Golden, who died keeping the B-24 aloft until the rest of the crew bailed out. Only the pilot and tail gunner Norm Stewart perished. Tim's dad hid out for three days with no food or water, and when he was caught trying to hide in a haystack his captors gave him a cup of ersatz coffee which he always said wa
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