Offutt lab identifies remains of WWII fighter pilot who disappeared in 1944
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Steve Liewer 11 hrs ago
Forensic anthropologists from a military laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base have identified the remains of a decorated World War II fighter ace from Ohio who disappeared over France on Aug. 28, 1944.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a press release Monday that Capt. Albert Schlegel of Cleveland was identified based on laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence.
Schlegel disappeared Aug. 28, 1944, after flying his P-51D Mustang from England on a mission to Strasbourg, France. He had radioed that his fighter had taken anti-aircraft fire and he needed to bail out, the release said.
That evening, residents of Valmy, a village in northeast France, reported that an unidentified American aviator was captured there. Three months later a set of remains was found near the towns train station. The man had been shot behind the ear, a doctor determined.
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(5,865 posts)must be rolling over in their grave about our President elect.
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(9,899 posts)Welcome home.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Hopefully the family will find some peace with him being identified.
Rest In Peace CPT Schlegel.