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Lieutenant Finally Home After 80 Years | Providence News
After 82 years lost to time and war, First Lieutenant Franklin McKinney has finally come home — his remains returned to Rhode Island this week following a breakthrough discovery in 2018 that reignited the search. A 21-year-old pilot who vanished over Thailand and Burma in 1944 during WWII, his F-5 Lightning was never found — until DNA confirmed bones unearthed from a rice paddy crash site belonged to him. His great-niece Courtney Whittier wept with relief recalling her family’s devastation when the telegram arrived. On Friday, he was laid to rest with full military honors beside his parents…
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