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08-14-2008, 01:09 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Missing WWII Pilot Is Identified Missing WWII Pilot Is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is 2nd Lt. Howard C. Enoch Jr., U.S. Army Air Forces, of Marion, Ky. He will be buried on Sep. 22 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. Representatives from the Army met with Enoch's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army. On March 19, 1945, Enoch was the pilot of a P-51D Mustang that crashed while engaging enemy aircraft about 20 miles east of Leipzig, near the village of Doberschütz, Germany. His remains were not recovered at the time, and Soviet occupation of eastern Germany precluded his recovery immediately after the war. In 2004, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) surveyed a possible P-51 crash site near Doberschütz. The team found aircraft wreckage. In 2006, another JPAC team excavated the site and recovered human remains and aircraft wreckage. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of Enoch's remains. For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic. mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.
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08-14-2008, 04:11 AM
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08-14-2008, 04:59 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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|  I´m happy for his family...
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08-14-2008, 08:23 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Nice for the family to get some peace.
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08-14-2008, 08:49 AM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Finally coming home.
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08-14-2008, 08:51 AM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Another airman going home....... Charles
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08-14-2008, 11:11 AM
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08-14-2008, 11:34 AM
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08-14-2008, 12:14 PM
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| Coming home to his family and the country he gave his life for. TO
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08-14-2008, 07:11 PM
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08-14-2008, 07:13 PM
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| the old Sage  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Platonic Sphere
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| as Enochs 359th fg was engaging Me 262's from III./JG 7 Enoch was separated from his leader Niven Cranfill and fell being shot down in most probability by ace Leutnant Rudi Rademacher on the 19th of March 1945.
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08-14-2008, 07:16 PM
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