-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! French find US war pilot’s body Susan Bell in Paris THE remains of a US Second World War pilot discovered near the wreckage of his fighter plane over 55 years after he crashed into a field in northern France may belong to a relative of General George Patton, it emerged yesterday. The airman’s remains were found by a local farmer and dug out of a clay field at La Longueville, between Maubeuge and Bavay where they had apparently lain undisturbed since his Mustang P51 plunged from the sky in 1944 or 1945. Metal identity tags found next to the body enabled gendarmes to name the young pilot as William Patton. Personal effects, including the airman’s tie and leather jacket, complete with the insignia showing his rank of lieutenant were also found almost perfectly preserved. The discovery was made on Thursday by local farmer Luc Druet, who recently decided to drain the clay soil in his field and had called in a team of experts to carry out the work. He was joined by Arnaud Bourriez, a 29-year-old local who had became obsessed with rumours that a fighter plane had crashed in the area towards the end of the war. "I knew, because several people had spoken to me about it, that a plane had crashed behind the old railway station," said Mr Bourriez. Mr Bourriez and Mr Druet first discovered a machine gun, before digging up pieces of the wreckage. "Then suddenly I saw white material, cords... it was the parachute," Mr Bourriez told the local paper, La Voix du Nord. Nothing had burned during the crash and debris from the fuselage, the engine, propeller and the radiator were uncovered virtually intact. Armed with six machine-guns and powered by a V12 engine, the Mustang P51 only had room for the pilot. The police said US experts would try to determine whether the pilot was related to Gen George Patton. The crash is surrounded by mystery. What caused the plane to plunge to the ground? Was the Mustang a victim of enemy fire or did it crash because of engine trouble or pilot error? The authorities want to find out if there were witnesses, did anyone go to the site of the crash, was the pilot’s body visible and if so, why was he not given a burial? Further digging is planned to find out whether other objects belonging to the pilot are buried beneath the soil of La Langueville. Gendarmes are hoping the arrival of a US army delegation next week will help them find the answers. The US authorities are consulting air force archives in order to trace William Patton’s flight plan and the date of his disappearance. While the date of March 1944 is clearly marked on the parachute found next to the pilot’s remains, elderly residents of the village remember a plane crashing nearby while there was snow on the ground, leading gendarmes to believe that the Mustang probably crashed sometime that winter. Following last week’s discovery, a local historian specialising in aviation, Jack Guillemin, has found that La Voix du Nord, in its edition of 17 January, 1945 carried a report of a US plane which had crashed in the region two days earlier. "On 15 January, at about 11:30am, at about 500 metres from the railway station at La Longueville, an American fighter plane, apparently lost in fog, crashed to the ground," read the article. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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