05-26-2016, 10:52 PM
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Memphis Belle gunner passes away.
RIP good Sir and thank you and your fellow Airman.
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On May 6th, 2016, Melvin Rector, 94, passed away quietly in a field. He was however, in England for the first time since he left after World War II.
Back then he was Master Sgt. Melvin Rector, a gunner and radio operator in the 96th Bomb Group based in England. He flew 8 combat missions over Germany, all of them in B-17 Flying Fortresses. As he recalled it, four of them he almost didn’t survive as enemy fire was so heavy the planes got back peppered with bullet holes. At one point, he was even a gunner on the famous Memphis Belle.
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