Living to see your 100th birthday takes a little luck.
PUBLISHED 5:18 PM CDT Mar. 16, 2022DALLAS — Texas is getting another centenarian and the City of Dallas is honoring his 100th birthday by naming March 16 as John “Lucky” Luckadoo Day.
Having flown 25 missions as a B-17 bomber pilot, he said the traumatic experience is a chapter in his life where heThe air war over Europe claimed the lives of over 26,000 men from the Eighth Air Force, exceeding the total WWII fatalities sustained by the entire Marine Corps. By the end of the war, over 47,000 of the 115,000 U.S. Army Air Force casualties were from the Eighth.
“We went over without fighter escort initially,” said Luckadoo. “We performed strategic bombing missions daily, which the British objected to because they thought it was suicidal, and they were right, it was.”
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