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World War II memories come alive on father-son trip: Dennis McCarthy

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It was only 15 minutes out of 92 years, but what a 15 minutes.

The young American pilot was returning from his 68th combat mission when his P-51 Mustang hit some high tension wires and crash landed outside a German farmhouse in the dead of winter -- 2 p.m. on Jan. 14, 1945.

Larry Powell scrambled out of his plane, preparing to blow it up with a thermite bomb all American pilots carried with them so the Nazis wouldn't get the airplane.


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