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May 19, 1986

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a reporter at large

A MISSING PLANE II-IDENTIFICATION

Susan Sheehan

REPORTER AT LARGE about the history of a World War II missing plane. On Mar. 22, 1944 Lt. Robert Allred of the Army Air Forces piloted a B-24 on a flight …