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It is usually the famous who do the autographing, but GI’s swarm all over Hells Angels at a U.S. airdrome in England on Feb. 3, 1944, to put their names on the Flying Fortress before its takeoff for the United States and a tour of aircraft assembly and other war plants. Hells Angels, one of the most famous Fortresses in the U.S. Army 8th Air Force, had made 49 raids at that time, dropping more than a quarter of a million pounds of bombs on enemy territory and fighting through many battles with...