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  • French towns honour US pilot killed in liberation

    01/15/2003 3:09:28 PM PST · by knighthawk · 9 replies · 197+ views
    The Independent ^ | January 15 2003 | Frederic Lepinay
    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...