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    COMBAT VETERAN BUFF

    Mar 03, 2020 3 minutes
    BY BARRY LEVINE

    mong the first things visitors to the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Mich., notice is a Boeing B-52D Strato-fortress, parked in a fenced-off area adjacent to Willow Run Airport. It’s hard to miss, with its 185-foot wingspan and 40-foot-tall tail. Scaffolding is in place, the bomb bay doors might be open and volunteers may be working on it. The location is not an obvious B-52 work site as these aircraft were never based at Willow Run, though a nearby plant built thousands of Consolidated B-24 Liberators during World War II. As it

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