http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/world-war-ii-pilots-remains-found-in-tree-return-for-burial-72-years-later/ar-BBEs8Qz?li=BBnb7Kz
For more than 70 years a tree protected the remains of a World War II fighter
pilot from Washington state whose plane crashed in Germany in 1945.
The remains of Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William Gray of Kirkland were returned to
his family Friday for a burial at Tahoma National Cemetery with full military
honors.
The 21-year-old Gray was on a dive-bombing mission on April 16, 1945, when his
single-seat P-47D aircraft clipped a tree and crashed.
Q13 Fox.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Jim Louvier returned home from the war and was 89 when
he died in 2010.
As they went off to the war together after enlisting, Louvier made a pact with
happened to either one of them.
Bradshaw told the station that her father kept his word. He married Gray's
younger sister.
she said of her father.
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