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Richard L. Rydant

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  1. Hello everyone, All crew members were not captured. My Uncle Norman Therrien #11030761 was the belly gunner on B-17 Bomber 41-24585 and he and another crew member worked there way to the Spanish border and managed to escape without ever being captured. Check out book "Their Deeds of Valor" by Don Lasseter. The debriefing files are now online and you can read my Uncle Norman's file. File EE-14! He was the fourteenth person to hit a "Home Run", that is he made it back to England. Our family in Massachusetts was of French-Canadian decent and Norman spoke fluent French and that assisted him in making his escape over the mountains from France to Spain and back to England. Have lots of info about Norman Therrien. Norman was married to my mother's sister, Loretta Dancause, and was my father's (Joseph Rydant) best friend. Hope this info will assist, RiK Rydant High Falls, New York's
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