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"Rum Runner" B-25 Crash

Johnson, Macaluso, Wild Bill Gornick, Lemmon pose with a crashed "Rum Runner" B-25 in Liuzhou June 1944.  William "Wild Bill" Gornick completed his required 200 combat flying hours on "Rum Runner" as it crash landed  following  a  mission against Tien Ho airbase.  Bill assisted the maintenance personnel with salvaging all the useable parts they could until he left for the USA a few days later.

Johnson, Macaluso, Wild Bill Gornick, Lemmon pose with a crashed "Rum Runner" B-25 in Liuzhou June 1944.

William "Wild Bill" Gornick completed his required 200 combat flying hours on "Rum Runner" as it crash landed  following  a  mission against Tien Ho airbase.  Bill assisted the maintenance personnel with salvaging all the useable parts they could until he left for the USA a few days later.

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