Lake County IL Archives News.....Lost Waukegan Airman Found; With Comrades December 12, 1918
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Chicago Daily Tribune - December 13, 1918 December 12, 1918
Waukegan, Ill., Dec. 12 -- Lieut. Homer Dahringer of Waukegan, American aerial
observer, reported missing in action Sept. 17 after his plane disappeared behind
the foe lines while on a perilous mission during a storm, has been found.  He is
with the American army of occupation on German soil, and is in the best of
health and with the company with which he started out.

News to this effect arrived in a letter this morning to Mrs. Anna Z. Allen, 115
Second street, from her daughter, Evelyn, a secretary of the American Red Cross
hospital and home service in Paris.  She succeeded in the getting trace of
Dahringer before the war department, the Red Cross and other agencies.

Dahringer's fiancee, Miss Ruth Beasley, was among the first to hear the news.



Additional Comments:
Side Note:  **It was reported on January 3, 1919 from the Army to Homer's family
that Homer was killed in action and his body was brought to France for burial. 
In 1922 his remains were brought to the US for burial in Pineveiw Memorial
Cemetery in Beach Park, Lake County, Illinois.**

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