Pilot's brother gets ring<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AFP): Indonesia handed over a college ring
\nyesterday to the brother of an American fighter pilot who crashed
\nover Japanese-occupied Irian Jaya in World War II, 52 years after
\nthe airman's death.<\/p>\n
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute ring, inscribed with the
\nname Wynans Frankfort, belonged to a young Army lieutenant who
\nleft university in 1942 to join what was then the Army Air Corps.<\/p>\n
It was found several years ago by an Indonesian who then
\nshowed his find to an American tourist. The tourist alerted US
\nmilitary authorities, who began looking for the ring with their
\nIndonesian counterparts.<\/p>\n
\"This was no ordinary find,\" Indonesian ambassador Arifin
\nSiregar said before giving the ring to Phillip Frankfort in a
\nceremony at the elegant Indonesian embassy building on
\nWashington's Embassy Row.<\/p>\n
\"We know it carries with it an emotional value only his family
\ncan best appreciate,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Phillip Frankfort said receiving the memento \"has meant a
\ngreat deal to a lot of people.\"<\/p>\n
Wynans Frankfort, whose plane crashed upside-down in a jungle
\non Japanese-occupied Biak Island in May 1944, was buried last
\nyear in his Virginia hometown following official identification
\nof his remains.<\/p>\n
He was one of the roughly one million Americans killed or
\nwounded in World War II. The Indonesian province of Irian Jaya
\nwas formerly known as West New Guinea.<\/p>",
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