I discovered a few years ago that my Great Uncle (Arthur Grant Sylvester) was killed on a combat mission near Metz, France in late 1944. He flew the P-47D-26 with the 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron. He was killed on a bombing mission when (apparently) AAA hit his plane causing him to crash. He was declared missing for about a year before his body was recovered and returned to Utah.
This info came as quite a shock to me and my brother as my parents and grandparents had never spoken about him. Given our family's interest in aviation - and having three pilots in the imme