Airman's remains identified 60 years later

The Boston Globe ^ | 2-16-08 | Megan Woolhouse

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Florence Leal was a teenager when her brother, Sergeant Albert Forgue, a gunner on an A-20J Havoc aircraft, disappeared more than 60 years ago during World War II.

Barely a day has gone by when Leal has not thought of him.

"He was 20 when he was lost," said Leal, 78, of North Providence.

Military officials announced yesterday that a shallow grave of bones and other remains found in 1975 near Simmerath, Germany, has been identified as three US airmen, including Forgue. The two other servicemen believed to be on board the two-engine bomber when it crashed over Cologne in 1944 were Lieutenant John F. Lubben of Wisconsin and Sergeant Charles L. Spiegel of Illinois

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Prayers for these men. Welcome home.

[fso301]

Everyone knows about the B-17’s, B-24’s and B-29’s but a largely unknown aspect of the air war was the role of the light/medium bombers such as the A20, B-25 and B-26

[Gay State Conservative]

The Greatest Generation.

[Redbob]

The A-20 was apparently also used as a nightfighter called the P-70, and in a photo-recon variation.