The July 13th Fox NeWS reports that a 1938 high school ring and twisted dog tags were returned to an aviators family after being under ground in France for over six decades.
On August 18, 1944, the B-24 bomber on which Felix Shostak was a turret gunner was shot down over France and his body never found. As such, he was listed as missing and his family never had closure until now. The only survivor of the crash, Norman Grant, parachuted, but was captured by Germans. Ina postwar memoir, he wrote that he believed Shostak was killed in the ensuing fire after the crash.
Last fall, the twisted tags and ring were found at the crash site and it took six months to find the family.
Glad They Finally Got Home. --Cooter
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