Medals of missing WWII pilot presented to family
Alan Parker was still a boy, only 14 years old, when his older brother’s plane went missing over Saipan in 1944.Ensign Paul A. Parker, a Navy pilot who served with Fighter Squadron 25 aboard the USS Cowpens amid World War II, would never come home to North Carolina.Years later, the younger Parker, now 88, said his brother’s medals also went missing after the death of his parents.“Nobody knows what happened,” he said.On Tuesday in […]
