WWII Pilot Lost and Found
19 May 2006
WHITPAIN - He was a pilot last heard from on Nov. 28, 1942, near Bellingham, Washington - on his way home to visit his six-week-old newborn daughter.
A memorial service will be held today to honor Lt. Kenneth Ambrose, nearly a decade after his plane was discovered by hikers on Mt. Baker and identified and three years after researchers located his last remaining relative in Whitpain.
"At first I thought it was kind of a hoax," said Kathleen Edwards on learning in 2003 that her father's plane had been found.
In 2006, a military unit known as JPAC, for Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, made a final determination as to the identity of the remains. It came 64 years after he was lost.
Raised by a stepfather, Edwards said she only learned her father died when she was in the eighth grade and was applying for veteran's benefits.
The discovery of the plane got her late mother to open up and discuss her first husband.
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