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‘It’s like a dream;’ Local veterans honored with flights at Beverly Airport

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Vaughn, a longtime Beverly resident, had been a crew member on a Lockheed P-3 maritime patrol plane stationed out of Brunswick, Maine, during the Vietnam War. He flew off the coast of Vietnam searching for, and finding, enemy submarines.

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