Season 7 · Episode 5
2ndLt Lloyd Herbert Hughes: Through the Fire and the Flames
2ndLt Hughes was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for successfully bombing an Axis oil field in World War II despite heavy damage to his plane.
August 21, 20234m 52s
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Show Notes
Flying over a thousand miles to his target, 2ndLt Hughes’s B-24 Liberator took heavy fire from enemy flak, yet continued with the mission of bombing burning enemy oil fields.
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