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Hi-Line woman recalls her fallen aviator brother

When Hingham resident Mary White picked up the Tuesday edition of the Havre Daily News, she was shocked by the photo she saw on the front page.

"My first shock was, 'I've got this picture, how come this picture's in the paper?'" she said. "I thought, 'How did the Havre Daily News get that picture of my brother?'"

The black and white photograph, taken during World War II, showed four men standing in front of a B-26 Marauder military bomber. One of the men in the photo was Staff Sgt. William "Billy" Brown, White's older brother.

The 21-year-old was killed less than two months after the photograp...

 

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