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Old 26th May 2018, 20:17
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Re: US Fighter shot down-P-47D?

This plane can’t be Frank Fazekas’. I just recently attended his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery after his remains were identified at a crash site on a farm in northern France. His plane was positively identified from multiple serial numbers found on the wreckage that was excavated from a deep impact crater by a team of archeologists from the University of Wisconsin. Apparently he went in nearly vertically, creating a very deep crater that was covered over by the farmer whose beet field Fazekas crashed in. The link is to a great account of the effort to unearth the plane and return the pilots remains to the US for burial.


https://news.wisc.edu/uw-search-team...ed-wwii-plane/
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