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The best kept secret of world war two.

Het boek is een waargebeurd verhaal dat na meer dan 15 jaar van onderzoek door de author is geschreven en is gebaseerd op de door hem achterhaalde feiten door middel van interviews, onderzoeken ,documenten en nog veel meer.

This particular research all started when on Christmas Eve, 1991, when the museum's Director

was introduced to the grave located in the village cemetery of Cartigny, Department of the Somme,

France, located a few km east-south-east of Peronne, of World War One fame.

The grave is no longer unidentified, as a new 20“ X 36” grave marker was dedicated on the

10th of November, 2000, 56 years to the day of the death of the three men whose partial remains

are buried in the grave.

The grave marker provides the names and all the information required to verify our research into

the identity of the three B-24J crewmen whose partial remains are buried in this common grave. The

result of the only fully witnessed and documented case of American Soldiers of World War Two

recovering the remains of dead American Aviators and later hiding most of the remains they recovered

along a French road.

The origin of the Grave at Cartigny, can now be fully explained. Nine years and eleven months

after the beginning of the quest that Christmas Eve, the only living survivor of the three men from

the hospital unit attached to the 397th Bombardment group was found by pure luck. The man I

finally located, PFC Barney Silva, had been an ambulance driver and he drove one of the hospital's

Doctors and an Enlisted Medical Sgt. to the crash site.

From his testimony, we now know, that the remains of the three men in their “Official Graves”

were recovered by these three men, after their arrival at the crash site at 3:30 a.m. in the early

morning of 10 November, 1944, about one hour after the crash. They left the crash site at 06:30

to take the three newly created “Official Burial Packages” to their main, reporting hospital at St-Quentin

The remains recovered in those hours before full light became the “Official Remains” accounted

for by Capt. Judson, the Doctor, which were buried in the men's “Official Graves.” However, they had

recovered only the larger remains of the three men killed, which totaled about the weight on one man,

120/150 pounds and they left the crash site, leaving the rest of the men's remains unaccounted for.

When full daylight finally came that late, cloudy fall day, the people around the crash site began to

find more and more pieces of men. In mid-morning, another ambulance believed to be from the

hospital located in Peronne, came to the crash site. This is the ambulance crew that the French

helped recover the “bits and pieces of human, about what one see when one prepares sausage”

is the most heard quote from those that helped these men recover the rest of the crew's remains

at the crash site.

As no one in this crew has been found, one has to believe they found out that the Air Base Hospital

had already turned over remains to a hospital at St-Quentin about 15 miles to the east. By regulation,

they should have taken men's remains to that hospital. However, they did not. What they did do,

was to stop by the road and bury the remains they had just recovered with the help of the French

people. What they did not know, was that they were observed by one of the French who had just

helped them recover what they were illegally hiding.

So, now we know and can prove with an American participate, that the Village Priest who recovered

the second set of remains hidden by the Americans was correct in his statement at the time. And, that

the French who believe the remains in the grave was all the remains recovered are also correct. For

the grave does contain the vast majority of the remains of the three American Aviator killed in the crash

of their B-24J, SN: 42-51226, 36th BS (RCM) about 2:30 a.m., 10 November, 1944.

The museum's most recent research has lead to a totally different and newly understood end of

the last flight of the dual Congressional Medals Of Honor bomber; the Lady Jeannette, and the

relationship of the medal citations with the last flight of a “Top Secret” B-24J bomber of the 36th

Bomb Squadron (RCM - Radar Counter Measures) on a “spoofing mission” against Germany

FLAK and Night Fighter Radars, while on a night mission with the 100th Group Royal Air Force

protecting R.A.F. and R.C.A.F. flying night bombing missions against German targets.

The research is also tied together with a crashed B-26 bomber, “Where's It At?”. The Pilot

and Co-Pilot of that bomber were both awarded the Solders Medal, the highest non-combat medal.

The Official Records of the 9th USAAF, state their mission that day, lead to the most successful

day of the entire war for the 9th USAAF. Equal mention of that day's mission, 22 January, 1944,

against the “Our River Bridge” can be found in many military histories.

Two other bomber crashes of World War Two, one a Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax and the

othe,r a B-17G bomber are tied together and intertwined with the museum's original research. These

two crashes lead to the execution of the evading American Pilot and the Canadian Radio Operator at

the hands of the Germans, in the woods above Olizy-Primate, Department of the Ardennes, on

August 8, 1944.

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