[Scan-DC] B-52 flyover at Arlington later this week?

[Doug Kitchener]

Foo... I didn't turn up anything on a google search just now... what's more, I didn't find anything / site that would comprehensively list upcoming flyovers, so I called the cemetery... flyovers are scheduled by individual families with the different branches of the armed services, so there is no central "collection point" for this type of info...

Man, I'd love to see a B-52, don't think I've ever seen one...

DK

> From: b_thom at juno.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:29:59 +0000
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] B-52 flyover at Arlington later this week?
> 
> I don't know. I saw an article in the WaPo last month about Charles Bode. Here's the 411:
> 
> http://www.b52model.com/remains-of-wwii-airman-buried-at-arlington/
> 
> Remains of WWII airman buried at Arlington
> by admin on February 15, 2011
> 
> On Feb. 11, the remains of an Army Air Forces sergeant from Maryland who had been missing since his bomber disappeared during World War II were buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
> 
> An Air Force B-52 flew overhead about 3 p.m. as the remains of Tech. Sgt. Charles A. Bode, of Baltimore were laid to rest.
> 
> “The ceremony was fantastic,” said a niece, Shelley Bode Tiemann of Baltimore, who attended with her two sons and six other relatives. “It was very touching, very memorable.”
> 
> She had never met her uncle, who the Pentagon said was among the crew of a B-24D Liberator heavy bomber that vanished Nov. 20, 1943, after taking off from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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> But her late father, William Bode, who was the sergeant’s only brother, “talked about him,” she said. “We knew about him.”
> 
> The Defense Department said that only one radio transmission was ever relayed from the 11-man crew after takeoff. Searchers found nothing.
> 
> In 1984, the Papua New Guinea government told U.S. officials about a crash site in a ravine in Morobe Province. A U.S. team found wreckage and remains, but threats of landslides impeded recovery work. However, in 2004, the Pentagon said, villagers delivered human remains taken from the area earlier.
> 
> The Pentagon said mitochondrial DNA was among tools used to identify Bode’s remains.
> 
> The remains of the other crew members, who came from across the United States, will be buried together at Arlington on March 24, the Pentagon said.
> 
> According to the Defense Department, more than 74,000 Americans who served in World War II remain unaccounted for.
> 
> - washingtonpost.com
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> 
> I'm thinking that the burial of the remains of the other crew members might also rate a B-52 flyover.