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Alvie Leighton

CANDACE CHASE/Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years, 2 months AGO
by CANDACE CHASE/Daily Inter Lake
| November 14, 2011 5:49 PM

Alvia “Alvie” Leighton, 95, wondered for 60 years what happened to a B-24 Liberator aircraft that crashed during World War II. He learned the answer to the decades-long mystery last year after ordering a book on the 90th "Jolly Roger" Bomb Group, in which he served as an engineer.

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