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| Marc Rifkin, who sent these great pictures, wrote: "As a young child,
my mother often told me the story of my father's last mission. It was, in
fact, the Williams mission. He was the top turret gunner, S/Sgt.Morris (Morry)
Rifkin. He never spoke of his war experiences to anyone but my mother. He
was the gunner wounded in the leg, who sat in the co-pilot's seat and broke
his shoulder in the crash. He was in the hospital when he found out I had
been born (on March 15, 1945). The mission occurred on March 28, 1945.
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, A Purple Heart w/ one oak leaf cluster and an oak leaf cluster for his Air Medal... ...One of the crewmen lived for only a day or so and died in the hospital, in the bed next to my father's. The only member of the crew to suffer no injuries was supposedly Lt. Williams, who was said to be 18 years old at the time. My father was the "old man" of the crew (he was 25 years old). |