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WWII pilot who sought his lost wings dies at 90
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest this fall to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 airplane was shot down, has died at age 90.
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Harding's wife, Ruth Harding, confirmed he died at his home in Milford on Tuesday. He had prostate cancer.
Harding never found his wings, but on Sept. 25, he was a passenger in the Witchcraft—the last B-24 still flying. He sat in the cockpit behind the pilots in a 30-minute flight from Laconia to Manchester.
Harding said he felt that his last war mission—his 14th—was incomplete without one more landing. September's was "close enough," he said.
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