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...February 1945 the Flying Fortress Star Dust was struck by flak over Berlin. With two engines dead, another crippled and only the fourth putting out full power, Star Dust's pilot, Lieut. George F. Ruckman, abandoned all hope of getting back to England and headed east. Losing altitude steadily, he finally made a crash landing at a Russian-held airstrip near Torun in Poland...
...next month and a half, resourceful Pilot Ruckman and his crew worked to get Star Dust back into the air. Working under intermittent fire from German snipers and artillery, they repaired two of the plane's engines with tools they had found in burnt-out machine shops. Bribing military police to look the other way, they salvaged an engine and a wheel from another downed...
Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...
...Raymond Wagner, Chairman, Miss Nancy Grier; Ruckman Grier, Miss Anita Ward; G. W. Huth, Miss L. M. Everson; Curthis Thomas, Miss Eleanor Wells; Mannix Walker, Miss Sylvia Shippen; Robert Davis, Miss Frances Burnham...
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