Ohio WWII bomber crew member killed over France brought home to be buried after 80 years

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Ohio WWII bomber crew member killed over France brought home to be buried after 80 years
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Pictures and memorabilia line the walls of the Evans home in Johnstown, reflecting a family tradition of military service for generations.It’s something that ma

1st Lt. Wayne Crowl of Lock, Ohio, was shot down in a B-24 Liberator over France in 1944. Pictures and memorabilia line the walls of the Evans home in Johnstown , reflecting a family tradition of military service for generations.She thought she knew all of her family’s military stories, but a phone call about her uncle, 1st Lt. Wayne Crowl, changed everything.

So, Joyce Evans along with her grandson Graydon Evans, began their own mission of learning everything they could about this hero they’d never known. “They had sent his bomber jacket with his name on it in the casket, and that’s what was buried,” said Joyce Evans.

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