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October 24, 2022

Heritage Project — Tom Harmon is missing

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Three years after accepting the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in the land, Tom Harmon and his his World War II fighter were shot down. A dogfight with Japanese pilots had exploded the plane’s fuel line and he was being burned alive from the legs up. He needed to eject or he would die.
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