Remains of WWII fighter pilot killed in 1944 crash in Germany identified

[Broncazonk]

"U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Alvin Beethe of Elk Creek, Neb., is to be buried June 8 at Arlington National Cemetery more than 70 years after he failed to return from a bombing mission in the western part of Germany, said the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

On Nov. 26, 1944, Beethe was piloting a P-38 Lightning aircraft that didn’t make it back from an operation against enemy forces."

http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans...ified-1.348703

Bronc

[ssg keay]

I visited his crash-site in 2008 and was unable to locate the exact site due to the eye-witness showing me the wrong spot. He did not do this on intention, but did not realize that the property lines had been restructured after the war and thus the site was 30 meters over from where we were looking. I think that this was his first mission and that he blacked out in the dive. Danny