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From 1957 newspaper reports:

GULF SEARCH FOR TWO PILOTS ABANDONED
HALIFAX. N. S. UP. —Searchers have abandoned their efforts to find two crew members of an American B47 bomber that crashed Tuesday in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The last Royal Canadian Air Force search plane was recalled at dusk yesterday. The U. S. Air Force called off its planes and three Coast Guard vessels earlier in the day First Lt. William Stevenson, 32-year-old co-pilot, was the only survivor of the crash found. He had bailed out from 20.000 feet along with Capt. Paul Pascal. 42, the navigator-bombardier. Capt.'
Ray T. Cable. 36. was the pilot The B47 wws on a routine re-fueling mission from its base at Plattsburgh, N.Y.

His visit to France was reported in July 1957 prior to this incident. If he was 42 in 1957, he'd be born around 1915. Its a possibility it was him.