"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The story of how Sgt. Paul E. Rose's World War II-era military ID bracelet made its way from France back to his brother Bud in Santa Fe is both complicated and remarkable.
And it involves a chain of strangers who were determined to see that Rose's family received the memento.
Bud Rose and his son (and uncle's namesake) were presented with the special fragment at a recent ceremony at Santa Fe National Cemetery, on the 65th anniversary of Sgt. Rose's death in France.
Sgt. Paul Rose was 22 and stationed in France on Oct. 8, 1944.
A mechanic and a gunner, he was with the crew of a B-26 Marauder on their way back from a mission in Germany when tragedy struck. They were flying over a ceremony honoring a crew that had been shot down earlier that year and the bomber Sgt. Rose was aboard collided with another American bomber. All the members of both crews died."
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WWII airman's bracelet returned to family
