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WWII dog tag returned
Nearly six-and-a-half decades after a gunner’s B-24 bomber was shot down over France during World War II, a twisted dog tag and a ring found last year at the crash site have been handed over to his family in Vermont. They are items Felix Shostak was believed to have been wearing when he flew his last mission on Aug. 18, 1944, to attack a German fighter base in northern France. On July 5, a member of the Vermont Army National Guard delivered the artifacts to the family. Even though the details of the bomber’s crash were well documented, the Shostaks never knew for sure what happened to Felix. In 1951, a letter from the Department of the Army told them they might never know because his remains weren’t found at the crash site. The Army kept looking, but found nothing.
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