About 3 years ago I was hunting a WWII training base and found this dogtag and St Christopher pendant attacted to it. I did some research and found out the man, Charles J. Sweeney, was a member of the Red Raiders and was shot down on the B-24 Temptation on the first daylight bombing raid on the Phillipeans. I have tried to find some relatives but was unsuccessful.
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http://www.redraiders22bg.com/
go to table of contents at bottom, then B-24, then scroll down a little ways to Temptation. He was a private.
Just wanted to share the story.
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http://www.thunting.com/smf/index.php/topic,11304.msg72535.html#msg72535
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