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Blog # 2 – 9-2-2025

Pilot’s and Crew of the C-47 Skytrain’s in Operation Bastogne during WWII.

91st Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS)

439th Troop Carrier Group (TCG)

    1. 1st Lt. Harold Andrew Capelluto – Pilot

 

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