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My dad, Angelo Melchiorre, served in the Army Air Corp during WWII as a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator named Sunshine. On March 29, 1944 Sunshine was forced to land in enemy territory. My dad and the rest of the crew spent the next 13 months in a German POW camp.

Read the story: The Saga of Sunshine

Keywords: 719th Squadron, 449th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, Combat #5, Serial# 42-52106 , Grottaglie, Venegono Inferiore, Varese, Italy, Italia, Stalag Luft #1, Barth, Germany, WWII, World War II