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Restored bomber on display
SLP2002040603- BRIDGETON, Mo., April 6 (UPI) -- Five-year-old Teddy Hedrick of Fenton, Mo., peers out from underneath the underbelly of a B-25 Mitchell bomber as he stands in line with adults, waiting to get a tour of the vintage World War II bomber, near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in Bridgeton, Mo., on April 6, 2002. The vintage aircraft is on the way to South Carolina to commemorate the famed April 18, 1942, mission of James Doolittle, that took 24 B-25 bombers on a mission to bomb Japan and land in China. rlw/bg/Bill Greenblatt UPI

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