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dafischer 03-28-2018 05:40 PM
Downed WW II pilot finally comes home
 
Saw this in our local paper today. Kind of significant news, since he was from Trenton, NJ.

74 years later, a pilot who crashed in France returns home - Orlando Sentinel

HardDrive 03-28-2018 05:47 PM
Good story.

masraum 03-28-2018 05:57 PM
cool, good ending to a touching story.

Eric Hahl 03-28-2018 06:03 PM
Very touching.

Baz 03-28-2018 06:12 PM
Quote:
They had a special visitor during the 2016 dig. They gave Frank Fazekas Jr. a pair of gloves to help out. As the hours passed, he found pieces of his father's plane. He kept some items, including a black rubber piece that may have come off the control stick.
"I thought that might be something my father actually held on to," he says.
Puts a lump in your throat - but in a good way.......thanks, Dave....

pwd72s 03-28-2018 06:57 PM
Dusty in here...

shadowjack1 03-29-2018 03:02 AM
Thank you. Well worth the read.

bob deluke 03-29-2018 07:48 AM
New Hartford, NY is in my neck of the woods. Interesting story, I think there was an article in the
local newspaper about him. Good article...

Seahawk 03-29-2018 08:53 AM
...He also met the man who was present for his father's last moments: Marc Cooche, who still lived 300 yards from the crash site.

There were many hugs.

"It was like family, almost," Fazekas says.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1522342352.jpg

Thank you, Mr. Cooche.


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