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August 26, 2006
WWII Remains Found
My dad asked me earlier today if I'd heard about this, as one of the men found was a local man.
2nd Lt. David J. Nelson, of Chicago; Tech. Sgt. Henry F. Kortebein, of Maspeth, N.Y., and Tech Sgt. Blake A. Treece, Jr., of Marshall, Ark., are to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, the Pentagon said.
Nelson, Kortebein and Treece were among nine airmen aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress on a mission to bomb targets near Caen, France, on Aug. 8, 1944, when the plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed near a village south of Caen.
Pretty neat that they were brought home after all those years.
Posted by Rita at August 26, 2006 03:19 PM