1. BOMBER FOUND-- April 15th Kent (UK) online. The body of British pilot Bernard Frederick Taft and his Lancaster bomber has been found east of the small German village of Brandau which is east of Frankfort. His brother, John Taft, had spent decades tracking down his remains.
Archaeology buff Felix Klingenbeck, 20, had heard stories about a bomber that crashed near the village and went looking for it. He found sections of it and posted numbers online. It was an Avro Lancaster III JB221.
Hard to believe that it would take so long to find something like this in a non-jungle or water site.
2. PEARL HARBOR REMAINS IDENTIFIED-- Gerald Lehman was an 18-year-old Fireman 3rd class on board the USS Oklahoma that momentous day in Pearl Harbor. His body was never identified and he was buried with four other unknowns at the Punch Bowl National Cemetery in Hawaii.
Thanks to saliva from the glue on 64 letters he wrote home, his body has now been identified.
At Least, His Family Now Knows. --Dacoot
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