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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: TSgt Richard Hamilton, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII, POW
Description: Richard Hamilton was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942. He was trained as a radio man on a B-17 bomber crew. After arriving in England, he took part in eight successful bombing missions, but often dealt with the harrowing anti-aircraft fore coming from the Germans.The ninth mission turned out much differently. The bomber was severely damaged and Hamilton and several other crew members were forced to parachute out of the plane over enemy territory. He was captured and spent more than a year as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany. Hamilton describes the...