Going for Broke – Brenner Pass: Cutting the German Jugular

Fagen Fighters B-25J-30-NC “Paper Doll” soars over the Minnesota landscape silhouetted by the late day sun. This aircraft flew with the 447th Bomber Squadron stationed at Solenzara, Corsica during WW II. (Photo by Paul Bowen)

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First Lieutenant Paul L. Jackson of the 445th Bomb Squadron, 321st Bomb Group, would long remember his thirty-seventh B-25 mission, March 24, 1945. “As we flew away from the target, the guys in back called on the intercom to ask if we had taken a hit up front, since things were ‘very windy back here.’ We checked everywhere, but there was no damage. Our radioman then crawled into the space over the bomb bay and...

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