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Yesterday SMSgt. Scott M. Reuter of the U.S. Embassy to Prague and Jay L. Bevard, director of the US Army Memorial Affairs Activity-Europe, took over remains of 2/Lt Williama L. Kiggins of the 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force, who died after his aircraft was lost to flak near the city of Brno on October 11, 1944. This ceremony was organized nine months after the remains were excavated in the area and three months after the memorial was unveiled.
(Photo: courtesy of the History Dept. of the Moravian Museum in Brno)
The remains will be trasferred to Landstuhl, Germany, and later on the Hawaii to conduct further examination. After that it will be decided whether the remains will be buried with the other remains found in 1946 to the Kiggins' grave in Toledo, Ohio.
