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Downed flier ID’d in isles will be buried at Arlington

  • CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / crussell@staradvertiser.com

    Carol Reitmann Sumner embraces a photograph of her husband Air Force Capt. Thomas Reitmann, who was shot down and killed over North Vietnam in 1965. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovered and identified Reitmann's remains, and Sumner, who lives in Waikiki, will accompany him to Arlington National Cemetery, where he'll be buried next month.

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    Thomas Reitmann and Carol Reitmann Sumner were married in 1958.
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    courtesy photo @Caption1:<*R*p(0,0,0,10.5,0,0,g(P,S))>Air Force pilot Thomas Reitmann posed with his aircraft in about 1959.

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