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TIL that Lt Gen Lesley McNair was killed by errant bombs of the Eight Air Force, near Saint-Lô on July 25, 1944. In one of the first Allied efforts to use heavy bombers in support of ground combat troops, several planes dropped their bombs short of their targets

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