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Bill Hamlin was an Air Force pilot who had a harrowing experience as he prepared to fly on D-Day.

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On March 24, 1985, Maj. Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. -- a member of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission to Potsdam, Germany, was...