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Palacsinta

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Tue Nov-11-03 09:08 AM
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12. Father-Waist gunner

on a B-17 with the 482nd bomber group of the Army Air Corps (8th division?........stationed in England.) He received 4 Bronze Stars. He said he always wanted to put a sign in the window of the plane, saying to the Germans, "Don't shoot!!! I'm a Pfannenschmidt!!" (His mother's maiden name.)

His sister, my aunt, was a Lt. in the Army Nurse Corps, as a surgical nurse, stationed in New Guinea.

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