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Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone: A Wellington and an Infantry Officer

Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone: A Wellington and an Infantry Officer

Episode 587 Published 4 years, 5 months ago
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So how did a piece of Vickers Wellington Mk X HF485 find its way to Virginia, USA? Jon Bernstein, Arms & Armament Curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, returns to Hedge Hopping to tell the remarkable story of his grandfather and the crash of Wellington HF485 days before deployed to France in July 1944.

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