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Two photographs: One of plane crash; one of damaged plane surrounded by parachutes of men bailing out.

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Four photographs of crew pointing out damage to plane. Undated newspaper clipping describing damage: "An airplane called `Wild Wolf" still comes in for more than its share of the spotlight when the boys get to shooting the bull. `That was the most…

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Five photographs: Charles Hobbs pointing out shrapnel damage in wing, crew member point out out shrapnel damage, Eddie Huddleston in hospital, and crew member labeled "14 yr. old gunner." Newspaper clipping describing Huddleston's injury 1943/07/28.

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Typewritten description of Mission 18 over Bari. Describes leg injury and deaths of other men on the plane: "If it hadn't been for the intense cold I would have bled to death but the blood either froze or clotted after I made a tourniquet with my…

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Typewritten description of Eddie Rickenbacker reviewing the Benghazi camp's theater. Three photographs of crew and camp. One dollar bill signed by Rickenbacker.

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One photograph of crew members on leave in Tel Aviv; two photographs of unidentified women. Currency. Postcard.

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Typewritten description of leave in Tel Aviv, Palestine. Two photographs of unidentified women. One photograph of five crew members superimposed on Palestine pound with Huddleston's notations: "Killed," "missing," "wounded," "me."

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Typewritten description of surveillance by German plane and ground attack on airfield by paratroopers. "When it came we were ready and eager to protect our planes cause that's what they were after." Four photographs: three of crew with side arms, and…

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Typewritten description of surprise raid on Salonika, Greece, to bomb new planes. "Later the raid was written up in Colliers Magazine by a reporter that was in the lead plane." Three images of crewmembers and nose art of Wild Wolf.

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Four photographs of camp life: latrines, men shaving.
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