When Jake Didn't Return
Timeline-1944-Airman Jacob Tannenbaum's plane was downed by the Germans
1944, Great Britain, Thorpe Abbotts airfield
While performing for the USO in England, dancer Melanie Peters found herself in the sights of a handsome tail gunner named Jacob Mann. When the dashing flirt who laughed at death and lavished her with gifts was shot down over Italy, she cried for days.
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