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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cklooster@aol.com">cklooster@aol.com</a>
wrote:
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cite="mid8CB18790938A7AF-658-6CD@webmail-dd04.sysops.aol.com"
type="cite">Great research!</blockquote>
just a little intelligent use of Google ... and taking the time to do
it --<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid8CB18790938A7AF-658-6CD@webmail-dd04.sysops.aol.com"
type="cite">Now about that missing bomber with colonels Smith and
Hodge.... Was it ever located? You can't just leave us hanging; we
need the rest of the story!</blockquote>
there've gotta be a few mysteries left for Margie to solve ...<br>
<br>
Air Force Colonel <em>Archibald Y. Smith</em>, 49, and Army Colonel <em>Walter
W. Hodge ...</em><br>
<br>
there is an article in the Oakland Tribune Saturday, July 02, 1949, the
previews of which indicate the men were still missing, available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newspaperarchive.com">http://www.newspaperarchive.com</a><br>
<br>
It appears Col Smith survived an airborne collision of two bombers on
28 July 1944 near Merseburg, Germany (WW II). While a German POW, "<font
face="Arial">Col. Archibald Y. Smith, SAO, made a continuous
effort to place an American officer and several enlisted men in the
German kitchen. This was finally accomplished 24 March and
henceforward, rations improved steadily."<br>
<br>
but all I find about the 1949 event is the aircraft is MIA<br>
<br>
Bill Strickland<br>
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