Eight days after his first letter to the Buslee family, Louis Albrecht, father of the Buslee crew co-pilot David Franklin Albrecht, sent them this short, sad note.
January 30, 1945
(Incorrectly dated Dec. 30, 1945)
Dear Friends. We have just received word that David was killed in action Sept. 28, 1944. We hope you have had better news.
Truly Yours,
Louis M. Albrecht
Scribner, Nebr.
Unfortunately, the Buslee family had received the same sad news on January 28, 1945, which they shared in a letter to my grandmother, Raleigh Mae Farrar, the mother of Buslee crew waist gunner, George Edwin Farrar, my father.
Thank you to John Dale Kielhofer, John Oliver (Jay) Buslee’s nephew, for sharing this family letter with me.
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