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Title: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: ozrocker on October 22, 2011, 07:48:09 AM

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/10/army-air-forces-wwii-remains-missing-airmen-identified-102111w/






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Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: mbailey on October 22, 2011, 08:54:40 AM

Welcome home gents  :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Masherbrum on October 22, 2011, 09:16:08 AM

Welcome home  :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Maverick on October 22, 2011, 11:23:31 AM

Welcome home and thank you.  :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: bortas1 on October 22, 2011, 11:46:19 AM

 :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: ink on October 22, 2011, 12:56:20 PM

 :salute


wow 73,000 remain unaccounted for :(

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Devil 505 on October 22, 2011, 01:10:19 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Pigslilspaz on October 22, 2011, 01:24:03 PM

 :salute Welcome home, we missed you.

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Nypsy on October 22, 2011, 01:31:29 PM

Quote from: ink on October 22, 2011, 12:56:20 PM

:salute


wow 73,000 remain unaccounted for :(

I never knew that. So many.

 :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: ink on October 22, 2011, 01:39:40 PM

Quote from: Nypsy on October 22, 2011, 01:31:29 PM

I never knew that. So many.

 :salute

ya me ether...very messed up.

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: guncrasher on October 22, 2011, 02:11:02 PM

my great grandmother got was a letter for the son that had moved to the us looking for work. he had been drafted and was going to a place called europe.  never heard from him again.  on my father's side, my grandma had several cousins that were called back to germany to fight for the fatherland.  2 or 3 of them joined the german navy, nobody knows what happened to them.  there just never came back.  there was no letter or anything to tell them what happened.


semp

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: MarineUS on October 22, 2011, 02:46:22 PM

Welcome home gentlemen. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.  :salute

(This literally brought tears to my eyes.)

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Dichotomy on October 22, 2011, 05:33:54 PM

Welcome home and thank you  :salute

I'm with ya Marine

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: 007Rusty on October 22, 2011, 06:24:19 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Karnak on October 22, 2011, 11:02:58 PM

Quote from: ink on October 22, 2011, 01:39:40 PM

ya me ether...very messed up.

Times were different and world access and communication limited in ways people now have trouble imagining.

I recall reading somewhere that there are something like 500,000 MIA North Vietnamese soldiers.  Just no way for a poor nation or a nation without the tech base to ID remains.  Our tech base and wealth have allowed us to raise our level of expectation to levels that would have been seen as absurd 75 years ago.

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: AceHavok on October 22, 2011, 11:39:11 PM

Welcome home, Thank you for your service.  :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Puma44 on October 23, 2011, 01:28:50 AM

All gave some, Some gave all.   :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: EskimoJoe on October 23, 2011, 01:36:02 AM

Welcome home  :salute

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: viking73 on October 23, 2011, 02:36:19 AM

Back home and together forever toasting life in God's O' Club  :cheers:  :salute   Reminds me of that one Twilight Zone of the B24 crew in the desert.

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Rash on October 23, 2011, 07:41:43 AM

My condolences and welcome home guys.  Why didn't anyone get out?  Must of been horrific.  No one under the rank of Sargent?

Title: Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
Post by: Hajo on October 23, 2011, 04:47:17 PM

Welcome home Gentlemen.  :salute

We are truly happy you are back where you belong.