MARSHALL, N.C. (WLOS) — For over 80 years, the family of Sgt. Frank J. Tedone, a Connecticut airman whose plane was shot down in World War II in 1943, never knew exactly where he was.
Just over a year ago, the family received the call they had been waiting for, thanks to DNA provided by Tedone’s nephew, who is also named Frank Tedone in honor of his uncle. His remains were identified, and on April 24, the family will be paying their final respects to him at Arlington National Cemetery.
The younger Tedone, originally from Connecticut like his uncle, moved to Marshall in Western North Carolina in 2013. He said he received a letter on May 13, 2022, from Lithic Genealogy, a company that had been hired by the U.S. Army to find relatives of the crew of the aircraft named “Apocalypse.” This was the plane his uncle was a gunman on, Tedone said…