Born 26 March 1924, 2nd Lt Ray D. Packard, pilot of the P-38 42-67526, took off from station A-11 Saint Lambert on a bombing mission over the Laon-Chambry airfield with 21 other planes. They were attacked by over 80 German aircraft near Beauvais. 11 P-38s, including Lt Packard’s, were shot down. It was his first mission. His remains were interred by French locals in Angy and listed as MIA by the military. In 1951, Army Graves Registration Command confirmed that information but lost the trail when the mayor could not tell them where they went after their exhumation. In 2006-2007 a POW/MIA team went back and interviewed the descendants who turned over human remains from the crash site identified as Lt Packard’s. He is now buried in the Prescott National Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA.