Downed WW II pilot finally comes home

[dafischer]

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]

Good story.

[masraum]

cool, good ending to a touching story.

[Eric Hahl]

Very touching.

[Baz]

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]

Dusty in here...

[shadowjack1]

Thank you. Well worth the read.

[bob deluke]

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]

...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.



Thank you, Mr. Cooche.