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

[Clegg, Andrew W.]

Last fall when I was golfing at East Potomac, a B52 flew directly
overhead, coming from the direction of Andrews. That was super cool.
Eight engines.

Even cooler was the day 2 or 3 years ago when I was with my son at
Gravely Point Park, and a B1 (or whatever the stealth airplane that
looks like a bat wing is) flew by, fairly low, again from the direction
of Andrews, headed off over Arlington. That was surreal.



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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. 
 		 	   		  
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