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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.
Buy Jon's book, P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses: Western Europe 1943-45, at our Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781472846297
Follow Jon on Twitter: @Cobrahistorian
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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.
Buy Jon's book, P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses: Western Europe 1943-45, at our Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781472846297
Follow Jon on Twitter: @Cobrahistorian
Buy our Merch! The History Hack Shop is Open!
Like the episode? Drop us a tip via Ko-Fi! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack
Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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