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| '''John Rood''' <br/>2/9/2002 6:42:03 PM 
| My dear friend Bill Orphan is not yet &quot;online&quot; and thus is not yet a visitor here.  But I just tonight discovered your excellent website and thought I'd leave you all a note on his behalf.<br/> <br/> Maybe some of you know Bill and his wife Jeanne through 401st or ex-P.O.W. group reunions?<br/> <br/> Bill served in the 401st as a tail gunner and survived a hasty bail-out of his shot-up B-17F shortly before it exploded somewhere over hostile territory in early 1944.  (I believe most or even all of his crewmates did as well?)<br/> <br/> He then made it through a protracted stay with his German &quot;hosts&quot; at StalagLuft XVII, and at war's end became a firefighter and raised a family back home in the USA.<br/> <br/>   <br/> And, he's still doing fine, all these years later!<br/> <br/> I am honored to know Bill and his wonderful wife Jean.  They are great friends here in the Greater Boston area.  I would be delighted to hear from any of you.<br/> <br/> John Rood<br/> <br/> <br/>  
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| '''Donald Byers''' <br/>2/10/2002 1:13:42 PM 
| This is a good way to get him to join the Group from this site.  And hope he might make the next reunion which is in October.<br/> <br/> Don Byers<br/> Remember Sgt Donald C. Byers KIA 24 Aug 1944<br/>  
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