Lt. Bruce, right, talks with his original copilot, Lt. William Brown. Brown was injured prior to the Kassel Mission and removed from the crew.
"We were up at this hour for breakfast and then to the Briefing Area. We had a full load of gas so we knew it was going to be a long, long flight. The ship had a full load of 1,000-pound bombs and all the .50-caliber machine gun ammunition we could squeeze in."
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