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JAMES ALTHOFF

Color Image - Nose Art Inspiration - ALBERTO VARGAS
Lost 11 Dec 44, AUT - MACR 10602 - Pilot Vern L. Larson

Contributor - Kathy Le Comte Lupton VIA James Althoff (Pilot / President 781st BS Assn.)
My Grandfather, S/Sgt. George J. Le Comte, was the Tail Gunner (KIA). Shot down over Vienna, Austria on a bombing mission to the Vienna marshalling yards. Eleven crew on board (6 KIA / 5 POW).

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