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WWII airman returns to Maryland for burial

Published 10/12/07

WASHINGTON - Army airman Sgt. Leonard J. Ray was 22 when his B-24J Liberator bomber was shot down during World War II over Germany, killing him and all hands aboard.

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But his family, of Upper Falls, never received confirmation he was dead. The plane, taken down 20 miles northwest of a German aircraft factory they had bombed, wasn't recovered, and the remains of Sgt. Ray and eight other men remained undiscovered in a field south of Westeregeln, Germany, for decades.

 

The Department of Defense closed the story publicly yesterday, announcing that nine Army airmen from the U.S. Army Air Forces, 856th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomber...

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