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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: TSgt Paul 'Bud' Haedike, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Description: Paul "Bud" Haedike was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943. Before long he was assigned as a togglier bombardier on a B-17 bomber crew. From the final months of 1944 into 1945, Sgt. Haedike took part in 23 bombing missions over Europe, and none of those missions came with a guarantee he would return to base safely. In fact, Haedike remembers cooks at his base in England telling crews to eat up since it might be their final meal.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," Sgt. Haedike recounts his first mission, which resulted in a crash landing in...