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Missing WWII Pilot is Identified - 2LT Howard Enoch, Jr.
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08/13/2008 09:14:11 AM
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. He is 2 nd 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 Doberschütz, 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) surveyed a possible P-51 crash site near Doberschütz. 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.
Bill "Billy Bob" Stewart Son-in-Law of SSgt Dave Miller (1919-68) Aircraft Armorer/Aerial Gunner 5th BG 1940-43 484th BG 1944
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RAF_112_Sqdn
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Re:Missing WWII Pilot is Identified - 2LT Howard Enoch, Jr.
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08/13/2008 09:37:14 AM
Great news that he has been found and identified does anyone know the Fighter squadron and group?
Rob
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Terry T.
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Re:Missing WWII Pilot is Identified - 2LT Howard Enoch, Jr.
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08/13/2008 08:54:04 PM
Enoch was attached to 368thFS/359thFG.
Terry T.
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Re:Missing WWII Pilot is Identified - 2LT Howard Enoch, Jr.
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08/13/2008 10:27:50 PM
Thanks Terry
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