New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs

WW II Aviator Remains Closer to Home

Final Flight in African for New York Pilot

New York Airmen Train With Army Guard Troops

Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Steven Petibone, Guard Times Staff

ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT--Members of the New York Military Forces Honor Guard carry the remains of United States Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Ray Fletcher from a plane to a waiting hearse Wednesday, Aug. 18 during an honorable transfer of remains ceremony here.
Fletcher and three others were killed in 1944 when the B-25 medium bomber he was piloting crashed into a mountainside on the Mediterranian Island of Corsica.
His remains were finally recovered in 1995 and identified in 2009. Fletcher will be interred in Essex Junction, Vermont.

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