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T-Shirt Color: White; Front: Wilmington Fire Dept. 80 Years of Dedication & Valor, Fire Hats & Dept. Emblems; Back: WFD 80th Anniversary Celebration, Sat. Oct. 13th, 2001 10am;Open House, All City Fire Stations, Sat, Oct. 20th,2001;Fire Museum Opening, 1814 Gilpin Avenue, Wilmington, Sat. Oct, 27, 2001;Parade Downtown Wilmington-King Street, approximately 2001-2012
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New York-New York Hotel and Casino 9-11 Heroes Tribute Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00459
Collection Name: New York-New York Hotel and Casino 9-11 Heroes Tribute Collection
Box/Folder: Box 375
Collection Name: New York-New York Hotel and Casino 9-11 Heroes Tribute Collection
Box/Folder: Box 375
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Whitaker, Dean, 1925-
William Dean Whitaker was born in 1925 and raised in a suburb of Los Angeles,
California. Dean, as he is known, talks briefly about his parents and his brothers, for his youth quickly ended when he joined the Air Force and became an aviation cadet once he had turned 18 years old. The year was 1943 and World War II was raging. He became a member of the 398 th Bomb Group and flew twenty missions before being captured by the Germans.
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