The American pilot felt his aircraft wobble in the sky near the coast of West Sussex, England, where the beach gleamed below him, and the emerald meadow pastures lay ahead on June 22, 1944.He and nine other crew members aboard a B-24 Liberator had just been jolted by a shell from a German antiaircraft gun that tore through the plane's metal, forcing the pilot, First Lt. William B. Montgomery, into a dire situation as he tried to fly from Paris back to base camp in Britain.
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