Apologies for the noise caused by handling the camera during the video.
Today, we gather as the Daughters of the American Revolution, veterans, community members, and family to solemnly commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of 1st Lt. Frank Yawitz and three other brave young Americans.
On September 24th, 1944, their B-26 bomber "Baby Doll III" crashed on the outskirts of the village of Blackmore, UK as they returned from France to Matching airfield in Essex. Frank Yawitz was just 28 years old.
A navigator with the 391st Bombardment Group of the US Ninth Army Air Force, Yawitz was a native Missourian from an Orthodox Jewish family that had fled the murderous Russian pogroms to settle ...