LATHAM, N.y. (August 20, 2010) - from the US Air Forces Ray Fletcher 1st lieutenant pilot returned home to Essex Center Vermont since World War II, 17 August 2010, the New York National Army National Guard was to help him along.
Eight members of the military Honor guard New York conducted an Honourable transfer ceremony remains at Albany international airport travel what remained of Ray Fletcher a United Airlines jet for the hearse waiting to carry the package in its native state.
"It really matter where our servicemembers have chuté.Nous always recognize the sacrifice that they facts and it is nice to be here to do this, said lieutenant colonel Richard Sloma, who acted as agent casualty assistance for the event."
"For those of us who are in the service, we understand very quickly that we are all family, regardless of the branch of service, regardless of the where it is past we still honour," Sloma says.
Fletcher died 10 May 1944, when the B-25, Bombardier was piloting crashed in one side mountain on the island of Corsica Méditerranée.Son plan, which was assigned to the 57th Bombardment Wing was on a mission of routine courier when it crashed, killing four people, including a voluntary women's Crescent, due to bad weather conditions.
Although human remains were recovered in 1995 and 2005, they only were not formally identified, after DNA comparison with surviving members of the family in 2009.
Only on surviving Fletcher, Rhette Fletcher, a cousin, chose for him interred in the cemetery of Mountain View in the home town he left there are more than 66 funeral ans.Services were set for August 20 in St. James Episcopal Church, Centre of Essex, is
Members of honour NY care involved in more than 10,000 funeral 2009, normally make the honours veterans who lost their lives in the current wars in Iraq or in Afghanistan.Mais they are ready to honor the dead of our conflicts, said the personal Sgt. Wayne Stone.
"This is a sense of pride," said Pierre, the noncommissioned officer Caralluma responsible care to honor New York State military forces."It feels good... we are really quiet him today."
In April 2009, for example, members of Honor New York planned funeral honors military custody the Sergeant Dougal Espey, native of Elmira, N.y., who died in the war in Korea in 1950, but whose remains have been identified not in 2009.
Carolyn Chapin, a volunteer Red Cross also in flight, has developed the rest in Woodbury, Connecticut, in August 2009.
Two other victims of the accident were laid at rest in May to memorize the 66th anniversary of the accident, the Edwin Elliott in Mattoon, Illinois, and corporal Richard Loring in cutting, mass., rest of the final accident, m. Sergeant Lewis Geerlings, were not recovered.
In May 1944, the Army Air Force finally reaches the wreckage, 3,500 feet research team side of Mont Cagna, one week after the accident, found the aircraft is almost totally destroyed.
In September 1944, armed serious personal registration reported the difficult trek to the accident and that remains is not recoverable due to the impact of the accident and the fire that followed.
Also found a similar Commission review in February 1948 as the remains of Fletcher and staff accompanying on the aircraft to be officially declared unrecoverable.
In the spring of 1989, 45 years after the accident, the gendarmerie of armed notified Corsica Memorial business activity in Europe that the partial remains of victims of the accident had been restored in 1988.Une military investigation team has visited the site in June 1989, concluded that no additional recovery work would be possible on the site in the area dangerous to particularly difficult for the search and recovery.
The remains found by the Corsican Gendarmerie have entrusted to the Laboratoire Central Identification army, Hawaii (CILHI) for 1995.À analysis time, these remains included no correlation wreckage or else information with a known incident or time.the individuals ' accession has been queued in 1995, pending further evidence.
French nationals discovered new remains on the site in 2003 and 2004, rotate the additional non-biological elements CILHI May 2005.Une mixed team POW/MIA accounting command (JPAC) from the Department of Defense studied the site in September 2005, recovery remains human and personal effects.
Once Fletcher remains with the accident site, CILHI JPAG placed analysis concluded by end of 2009 remains recovered as Fletcher and returned to his State of Vermont home as his final resting place.
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