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

[Brother Camper]

I too just checked here at work and there are no fly-overs scheduled this
week.

Carl



On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
> >
> > 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
> > ===============
> >
> > I'm thinking that the burial of the remains of the other crew members
> might also rate a B-52 flyover.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Scan-DC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>


-- 



A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made
payable to The United States of America for an amount of up to and including
their life.