1LT US Army
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
He entered military service from California. On April 7, 1945, he was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined his aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day, 1st Lt Newell F Mills Jr and his wingman went missing in their P-51D aircraft. In 1947, the US Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains were Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village when it went missing. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium. In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's. Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his remains.
Interment on November 30, 2011.
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
He entered military service from California. On April 7, 1945, he was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined his aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day, 1st Lt Newell F Mills Jr and his wingman went missing in their P-51D aircraft. In 1947, the US Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains were Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village when it went missing. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium. In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's. Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his remains.
Interment on November 30, 2011.
1LT US Army
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
He entered military service from California. On April 7, 1945, he was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined his aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day, 1st Lt Newell F Mills Jr and his wingman went missing in their P-51D aircraft. In 1947, the US Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains were Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village when it went missing. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium. In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's. Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his remains.
Interment on November 30, 2011.
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
He entered military service from California. On April 7, 1945, he was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined his aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day, 1st Lt Newell F Mills Jr and his wingman went missing in their P-51D aircraft. In 1947, the US Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains were Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village when it went missing. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium. In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's. Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his remains.
Interment on November 30, 2011.
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