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Podcast: Your History Your Story
Episode: S6 Ep02 "Damn Lucky", A B-17 Bomber Pilot's Story
Description: On December 7, 1941, nineteen year old college freshman, John Luckadoo was chauffeuring around a group of local kids in a Buick he had borrowed from a neighbor in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. John was not able to use his father’s car, because his father didn’t yet trust him behind the wheel!
Suddenly, while listening to the car radio, a newsman interrupted the program to announce that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. John was well aware that a war had been raging in Europe for over two years, however, even though he had never heard of Pearl Harbor, he k...