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Remains of WWII pilot identified 70 years after fatal dog fight

The remains of a World War II pilot from Queens have been identified more than 70 years after he was shot down during a dog fight with German planes.

Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Charles E. Carlson’s remains were found last year by History Flight, a private Florida-based group, according to the Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The 24-year-old Carlson’s P-47 was shot down near Bonn, Germany, during the dog fight on Dec. 23, 1944.

German officials reported burying his remains at the crash site, but post-war efforts to find them were unsuccessful until his case was reopened in 2008.

The aviator’s remains will be buried Friday at the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Lebanon County, Pa.

Another service member from the Big Apple who was killed in World War II was recently identified.





Nancy Lewis of Bensonhurst used her DNA to help military officials to identify the remains of her uncle, Pvt. Joseph C. Carbone — a Marine who was killed Nov. 20, 1943, the first day of the Battle of Tarawa.

With Post Wires





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