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“The overarching theme of it to me is that America keeps its promise because my uncle is coming home.” Sconiers was an Army Air Corps bombardier in the war. While on a mission to the Netherlands in August 1942, he famously took the controls of a B-17 bomber, the Johnny Reb, after its pilot and co-pilot were killed by German fire. ................
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