Thomas J Vezina was born on 16 March 1944 in Fall River, Massachusetts.  He was the son of Thomas Vezina and Louise Bacon.  He had three brothers, Henry, Leo and Alban and one sister, Janet. On 15 December 1936, he married Elvia Thornton in Lebanon, Missouri. However, he in 1937 he moved to Fall River, Massachusetts where he lived with his sister Jeanette.  He then worked in several hospitals in New York and New Jersey. He visited his wife in Missouri from time to time, but by June of 1941 they had divorced.  Thomas joined the US Army Air Force on 2 March 1942 in Niagra, New York.  During his training, he married Mary Repko on 18 May 1942 in Charlestown, South Carolina.  On 4 June 1942, he shipped to Europe.

Tom was a waist gunner on a B-17 F (42-5444) that was nicknamed We Dood It.  He took part in 18 missions, one of which involved a crash landing after beign hit by enemy fire.  On 30 January 1944, the We Dood It was on a mission to bomb an aircraft assembly plant in Brunswick, Germany.  About six minutes out from its target, the We Dood It was attacked by German fighters, that hit the mid-section head on, immediately killing Thomas and othr waist gunner. The bomber burst into flames, and broke in two where the waist gunners had been.   It crashed near the town of Meinsen-Warber in Germany.
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