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Aerial view of the village of Passchendaele (north is to the right of the photo) before and after the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917. -
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Man Killed in Action 68 Years Ago Returns Home
In 1942, Mike Kight, then 21, went overseas with four of his brothers to serve in World War II. While the other four safely returned home to White Salmon, Wash., the family spent more than half a century wondering what exactly happened to Kight.
“Very little was talked about,” a family member said. “The uncles that came home didn’t really want to talk about it.”
Family members were aware that Kight died in a battle to liberate the people of the Netherlands in 1944, but his body was never found. The last anyone ever saw of him, Kight parachuted out of a plane in a massive airborne invasion against the Germans.
68 years later, family received a phone call informing them that three men in Holland found their uncle while searching for veterans’ remains. Metal detectors picked up his dog tags in a foxhole on a farm in a cornfield. The group also found his wallet, some bones and proof of how he died.
“When they found him, there were 150 spent rifle cases, so we know that he went down fighting.”
