Like many another soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert Raskin did not want to worry the folks back home. So he wrote to his wife in The Bronx that he had a nice safe job: switchboard operator in the Quartermaster Corps.
Last week BBC's New York office notified Mrs. Raskin that her husband was about to participate in a broadcast from England. She listened in, learned more about the "safe" job of Sergeant Raskin: as a gunner in a B-17 he had flown 64 missions over Germany, had shot down three Nazi planes, won the DFC and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf...
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