For more than 80 years, a Savannah, Georgia, family believed their uncle, 2nd Lt. Marion “Don” Zipperer, was killed in Italy during World War II. But thanks to a French historian’s research, they’ve learned the truth — his plane actually went down in France.
Zipperer’s grave lies in Savannah’s Greenwich Cemetery, but the family now feels a deep connection to a countryside nearly 5,000 miles away, where his P-47 Thunderbolt crashed just days after his 20th birthday.
“I was born 10 years after my uncle passed away. We never got to meet him — just pictures and a few stories. Nothing else. Now we know,” said Steven Shealy, Zipperer’s nephew…