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Yes, but then whose parachute was it? I think of my Uncle who went missing in a Navy SNJ in ‘46, flying in the Seattle area ...
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Many thanks for that link. No, that wasn’t my Uncle (Benjamin Vreeland), unfortunately ... I simply keep my eyes open for any WWII-related airman articles in the northwest, expecting his crash site and remains to be found eventually.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 04/02/08 at 09:15 AM
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Maybe it did belong to your uncle....It wasn’t Cooper’s, and it probably wasn’t a 1945 crash, according to this Seattle PI article:
“The date stamped on the found parachute—Feb. 21, 1946—is the repacking date, not the packing date, Hanson said. Local military historian John “Cye” Laramie said last week that date was the only thing questionable about linking it to Walling’s crash.”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/357259_parachute02.html