I was looking for the comment made by Michael.
I found it.
I can now share what he sent me with this message:
Dear Pierre,
Greetings from Sacramento California. Where are you located?
The following are photos of my trip to Sassy France in October of 2005. I met with Maire Bernard Levavasseur and presented him a proclamation to people of the city of Sassy. The proclamation thanked the city and people for burying Luis Perez Gomez as one of their own.
We met a local citizen who in 1944, was a 21 year old farmer. He witnessed the aerial fight between Luis and a German fighter. Luis crashed and after a few days of guarding the crash site the Germans allowed the citizens of Sassy to bury Luis. In the small maire’s office there is a book with mementos of Luis and Dorothy Pratt. The book included the pilot wings he earned and gave to Dorothy before he went to England. Also a heart necklace that Luis gave to her.
The people of Sassy France were very nice and pleasant. An article was also written in a local French newspaper.
Michael Perez
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Michael with the mayor of Sassy…
The crash site…
A witness of the dogfight…
The grave of Luis Perez-Gomez
Mementoes of Luis Perez-Gomez
Michael Perez, the mayor, and an unidentified man
Newspaper clipping (to be translated in English later)
Road sign
View of Sassy
Sassy paying homage to Luis Perez-Gomez
Sassy cemetery
Place Perez Gomez
It is wonderful that Mr. Gomez has the mementos and knows that the people of Sassy respected the soldier who fought for them.
Luis was a pilot not a soldier, but that’s not important. Just wanted to keep the facts straight.
You know little old moi…
More to come as Michael has shared more pictures.
There was a surprise in all this… so stay tuned.
There is always a surprise.
And, as always…I await the surprise!
I would have been a great historian. Always digging up the facts and discarding the myths.
This time I got all excited about this and I jumped to conclusions.