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[JChlupsa]

With all the BS going on in the world today I felt this was worth posting. Esp for someone who gave his life so others can enjoy freedom. Welcome home after being away for so long.
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Remains of missing WWII Mustang pilot identified
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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.

The remains are those of 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 Doberschutz, 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) at Hickam Air Force Base surveyed a possible P-51 crash site near Doberschutz. 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.

[JChlupsa]

Site member "Enoch" just wondering if you use your last name as a screen name and if you do if you might be related to the LT Enoch whose remains were returned

[Bill Pritchard]

Thanks for posting, Jeff. Nice to see that these brave soldiers have not been forgotten, even after so many years

[Mr70]

So true..

[PeteLeathersac]

Thanks too for posting this Jeff!.

These lads who gave their lives for the freedom we all enjoy so deserve the greatest of respect...no matter how many years have pased since they went MIA!.


Being a bit of a Warbird nut, I've read lots also cruised many websites where they search out old aircraft wrecksites looking for usable aircraft parts and the remains of those still listed as MIA..
What's sometimes amazing is how many dogtags, remains and identifiable personal items are missed in the original organized searches but are found in recent years by the more amateur enthusiasts who report their findings to the AirForce, respectfuly hold memorials at the sites also try hard to be sure any tags and personal items can be returned to the missing airmen's families..


~ Pete