May they now rest in peace

[Garysb]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ashed.html

Gary

[MIKE JG]

I'm glad there are still people out there willing to help bring these guys back home after all these years.

[Garysb]

With the greatest of respect to them it was a German group who found the crew

Gary

[james84]

I'm glad there are still people out there willing to help bring these guys back home after all these years.

I confirm. There are several active organizations trying to locate remains of missing soldiers for burial.
My Grandmother's brother fought with the Italian army in the Island of Rhodes in 1943, when Italy signed the armistice with the Allied (8 Sept. 1943). He was supposed to go back home for Christmas but he didn't.
Everybody thought he died in Rhodes in 1943. Recently, my mother carried out some research and we got in touch with an Italian gentlemen who managed to locate the remains of a relative of his, killed during WW1. He has data from the Vatican archives and he provided us a document, stating that my uncle was not dead in Greece, but was taken prisoner by the Germans.
We then asked information from the Red Cross's International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen (Germany) and finally found out that my uncle probably died at Mauthausen (Austria) in 1945, that is after 2 years. We also asked for info to some local administrations but no record is available.
After 70 years, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, but as the Lancaster crew story shows everything is possible.
RIP

[bismarck]

Also my mother had an uncle that served in Rhodes during that period. He was a mechanic of Regia Aeronautica on the Cant Z.1007 Alcione. Can't remember exactly because, but he was in Italy in September 43 and survived the war. I loved to hear his stories of that period, for example he was one of the man who helped to extinguish the fires after the famous attack to the harbour of Taranto.
Ciao zio Paolo.

Giorgio

[Firebird]

When I was in the Air Training Corps we helped in the recovery of a crashed Me-110 near where I used to live. It was cool when we got the pilot over for a dinner, a Col Ganz, and we had Douglas Bader, Bob Stanford-Tuck and Adolf Galland as well. It was an awesome night. Lots of great stories and I got their autographs on various books.

[Garysb]

The company I work for now own part of the factory that they went out to Bomb
Now Skoda Power part of Doosan Power Systems
We now make Steam Turbines not bombs

How sppoky is that?


Gary