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Arab TV: U.S. pilot capturedFrom the International DeskPublished 3/23/2003 7:05 AMView printer-friendly version BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 23 (UPI) -- A Lebanese satellite channel, LBC TV reports from Baghdad that an American pilot was captured in Baghdad, Sunday. The station showed images of dozens of Iraqis rushing to a bridge overlooking the Tigris river to capture a pilot whose plane was shot down. The bridge is close to the neighborhood of Sanaka leading to the information ministry. LBC is saying a U.S. pilot was captured. The event took place at the time Baghdad was being bombarded and the bridge was crowded...

Children waved American flags and young men donned GI uniforms yesterday at ceremonies in two French towns to honour a US pilot whose remains were found 56 years after he went missing in the Second World War. At La Longueville, near Maubeuge in northern France, William Wyatt Patton Jnr. was honored with a stone memorial that commemorates him as "a gallant hero" who "gave his life for us". Patton, from Stark City, Missouri, died aged 27 when his P-51 Mustang fighter plane crashed on 15 January 1945. His niece, Connie, travelled from Fairview, Missouri, for the ceremony. She said: "I'm...

FEIGNIES, France (AP) — A museum in northern France has opened a permanent exhibit on an American fighter pilot whose remains were found 56 years after he went missing during World War II. The exhibit reconstructs the career of Lt. William Wyatt Patton Jr., a Missouri native whose remains, along with parts of his plane, were found in a nearby field last year. The exhibit opened last month. The Patton room of the Fort de Leveau museum, housed in a 19th century military fort, displays pieces of the fighter plane and a silk parachute found in it. Patton's career is...

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - An American helicopter pilot today led a dramatic rescue of three construction workers from the top of a burning high-rise in Kuwait City. "Captain Steven," the private pilot of a leading Kuwaiti businessman, hovered a helicopter over the building, lowering a basket to rescue the men one by one from a crane on top of the 30-story block as thick smoke billowed from the blaze. It was not immediately known why the top four floors of the building under construction caught fire. It is being built to house a new Marriott hotel in the heart of...

Iraq Sunday invited the United States to send a team to Baghdad for talks on the fate of an American pilot missing since the Persian Gulf war. Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher was lost when his Navy F/A-18 Hornet jet was shot down on Jan. 17, 1991, the first night of the war. "Iraq is ready to receive any American team, accompanied by U.S. media, in order to discuss and document this issue under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross," said a statement issued by the ministry of foreign affairs in Baghdad. But a spokesman for...