Eighty years after the disappearance of an American military airman in World War II, his family received a token to remember him: a zippo lighter, Ankit with “Musashe 1943” and parts of the service number once handed over to his owner, Army Air Cards Staff SGT. Michael Musash.
One of the airman’s relatives came under the family’s possession after spotting it in a Facebook post about a year ago, the nephew of Sergeant, Vince Musash, told that Defense Pow/Mia Accounting AgencyWhich is a branch of the US Department of Defense, which works to find and identify service members, which either were missing in action or in prisoners of war during previous conflicts.
In the post, in 2019, shared by a Facebook group called “Great Lex Liters Club”, a Swiss man who collected the lighter showed a installment in his collection. It was Zippo Lighter with Mousshe’s last name and there were 27 hash marks that military historians believe that 27 missions of Airman were represented during the war. He suggested that the lighter may have been recovered from the remains of Musashe or from the wreckage of their aircraft, which was attacked in 1944 as per DPAA.
Musashe was last seen on April 19 of the year, when he was one of a group of American airmen, who were sent to the bombing part of Berlin. The German fire damaged his aircraft, which replaced the course and accidentally passed near the then Denmark, where the pilot ordered the crew members to bail, including the ties.
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How many of the crew members in fact have actually come out of the aircraft in parachutes. Officials say no relics or records related to the death of Musashe or another crew member were never found, and on November 7, 1945, the discovery of death was released to Musashe’s family.
The DPAA historians helped the family find the new owner of Zippo Liters after looking at that Facebook post. He approached the man, the Swiss Army veteran Rolph Grester, who eventually made it to him.
According to DPAA, “They firmly felt that the lighter was with our family and my uncle was happy to bring a part of the house.” “He was extremely helpful in arranging transfer, telling me the best way to ensure that it is a safe and sound in the United States. He tracked the shipment and kept me informed in each stage.”
The nephew of the deceased Airman told DPAA that he brought Zippo to his uncle’s sister, Virginia Zolar, who last saw her brother when she was in 7th grade.
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“She grabbed the lighter as if she was hugging her brother,” said Vince Musashe. “After 81 years, she did what she said she would do when she came home. She kissed Lighter. She was so happy that she used to live to see it.”
