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July 3, 1942.
Pilot George Williams and a crew of six men took off from a runway at Swindon, England. Their destination: the channel between Nazi-occupied Denmark and neutral Sweden. At a month shy of his 26th birthday, this was George’s 21st mission.
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He piloted a Lancaster, a heavy bomber used by the British in the Second World War. Accompanying him and his crew was a second Lancaster.
The mission was to fly low and slow to facilitate the laying of mines within the channel, providing a deadly obstacle for German ships.