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Remembering the Repulser

Carolyn Heilman will visit her uncle's true gravesite, sixty-six years after his death during a combat mission

Written by · February 19, 2010

Until just a few weeks ago, the Hardin family of Columbia, Mo. believed that James Hardin was shot down and lost over the English Channel during World War II and that his tombstone in an English cemetery was only a cross marking an empty grave. A phone call from researchers investigating the crash of his B-24 bomber on April 22,…