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NH WWII pilot gets wish for final B-24 flight
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - World War II pilot Bernerd Harding feels he has finally completed his mission—65 years after his B-24, nicknamed Georgette, was shot down over Germany.
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Harding, now 90, flew Friday from Laconia to Manchester aboard the Witchcraft—the last B-24 still flying.
The last time Harding flew a B-24, he was a 25-year-old first lieutenant piloting a bombing run to Bernburgh, Germany. On the way back, fighters crippled his plane, forcing him and his crew to bail out. Harding spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.
Harding said he felt his mission—his 14th—was incomplete without one more landing.
Harding is just back from Germany where he searched unsuccessfully for the pilot's wings he buried in a cellar after his capture.
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