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So many missing - so sad for the families.
If you are wondering what an AT-7 Navigation Plane is, check it out at this below site:
http://www.hill.af.mil/museum/photos/wwii/c-45.htm
Leo Mustonen, a 1938 Brainerd, Minn. High School graduate, left the central Minnesota city to join the war effort in 1942.
He was on an AT-7 navigational training plane when it vanished after leaving on a routine flight Nov. 18, 1942. Five years later, after an engine, scattered remains and clothing were found far from the plane's intended course, the cadets and the pilot were given a ceremonial burial.
Freeman, who went to school with Leo and his brother, Arvo Mustonen, recalled Saturday that while she was living with her mother-in-law during the war, the Mustonen's mother, Anna, often came to visit.
"Mrs. Mustonen was often at my mother-in-law's house, and she always had tears streaming down her face about the loss of her son in that mountain range," She said, adding, "I think (Mustonen's mother) would be just ecstatic and thankful that he has been found."
Anna and Leo's father, Arvid Mustonen, were Finnish immigrants who are buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Brainerd. Freeman said Mustonen's nieces told her they plan to return Mustonen's cremated remains to Brainerd to be buried near his parents.
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