I visited his grave site in 2005 and have photos I can share

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)

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Michael with the mayor of Sassy…

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

The crash site…

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

A witness of the dogfight…

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

The grave of Luis Perez-Gomez

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Mementoes of Luis Perez-Gomez

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Michael Perez, the mayor, and an unidentified man

Sassy newspaper clipping

Newspaper clipping (to be translated in English later)

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Road sign

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

View of Sassy

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Sassy paying homage to Luis Perez-Gomez

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Sassy cemetery

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Place Perez Gomez

4 thoughts on “I visited his grave site in 2005 and have photos I can share

    • 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.

      • 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.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s