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Article: Remains of World War II airman returned to family home
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HIGHLAND, Calif. - For two decades after her son's bomber went
down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson
faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his
body had been found - or if anyone was looking.
The mother of six strapping boys went to her grave without the
answer that has finally reached her two surviving sons 65 years
later: the remains of Sgt. Robert Stinson are coming home.
Military divers recovered two pieces of leg bone from the
wreckage of a B-24J Liberator bomber found at the bottom of the
ocean off the coast of the island nation of Palau. DNA testing
showed the femur fragments belonged to the 24-year-old flight
engineer ...