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In February 1945 a 23-year-old pilot already 4,000 miles from home, on the cusp of his adult life, climbed into his cockpit and rolled off down a Kings Cliffe runway. Fighter pilot Sidney Stitzer was part of a mission to disrupt the German railway network. But he never returned. His plane was hit by metal from an exploding train car and he died. This weekend, his nephew Bill Emanuel travelled from Denver, Colorado, to that overgrown Northamptonshire airfield to stand in the very spot in which...
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