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Old 25th December 2015, 20:21
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Re: WW2 USAF airmen MIA over Yugoslavia

Aleks , the last two mentioned by you along with Capt King were engaged and shot down by Soviet 866 IAP Capt Koldunov along with his wingmen Lt's Krivonogih , Shypulya and Zhestovsky due to an incident on the ground mistakenly caused by 82nd FG leading to the death of Soviet General. This however is little or not at all related to the started topic. If I may add the US grave commission may have moved their remains back to the central US cemeteries in France or US sometime between '46 - '49 . Hard to believe they are still buried in Yugoslavia unless the relatives desired so.The 2 Soviet pilots also KIA on same day may have also been repatriated later on .

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