European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 26, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 9 retired general amazed army is still in Germany by Connie Dickey staff writer Frankfurt when William r. Desobry served in Europe after world War ii he thought the . Army s Days i n Germany were numbered. During a return Visil thursday to re dedicate a building in Honor of a fallen Comrade the retired army lieutenant general said he was amazed the army is Sil Here "1 never thought we would Giitl be Here 40 years later and with Oil the family members Here too desobry said. This it just great and 1 think it really confirms our nato commitment we were All under the impression after the War that we would m leaving soon he said. We had always planned to leave. In fact everything we built like platen housing was Buill to German specific a liens so we could turn everything Over to the Ger Man government when we  desobry. Who was an officer in 1948, served As v corps commander from 1973 to 1975. He resumed to Frankfurt this week to rededicate belts gym As the Al Clovis fitness Center. Desobry was a classmate at 2nd it. Alfred c. Boo Zis at Georgetown University. During bsoiis1 Days Ai Georgetown in the late 1930s and Early 1940s, he held a world shot put record and was an All America tackle during his Junior and senior years. In 1986, Blozis was inducted into the College football Hall of Fame. After i round out Al was to be inducted into the Hall of Fame 1 wrote to Usa eur commander can. Glenn k. Otis and asked him if Blozis gym was still in the area desobry said. So it was his idea to rededicate the gym to Al  in february 1948, the gym on belts Cavern was dedicated to Tozi a who was killed in action in 1945. Ii was called Blozis Hall until 1973, when it became i warehouse for the Frankfurt army regional medical Center. It was reopened As a gym in 1979, but Only referred Loas belts gym. Aj17i,��5 renovation project was started in 1987 to make it a facility thai integrate health nutrition and physical fitness said maj Gen George out wan. Frankfurt military Community commander. The gym includes a Nautilus Center tree Wei has aerobics and video aerobics Orcas a children s fitness area a health bar saunas and Racquel Baji and Tennis courts. The . Army is at its finest today and having something like this is evidence of that desobry mid. Dedicating this to Al prove the army does not forget its people nor has it forgotten Ai  desobry said he thought Blozis would be pleased with the Itaw renter. He was just an All around  Bisel zloty 6 we William r. A Flory Pilot $ remains reportedly used As fear hmm Aid Atlanta iip1 Federal officials Are remaining silent about reports thai the body of a Navy Pilot shot Down Over North Vietnam nearly 21 years ago was used is a leaching Aid in a medical school an Atlanta newspaper reported. The Atlanta journal Constitution said the Case involves la. Cmdr. Edwin Tucker a fighter Pilot based aboard the air Craft Carrier Bon Homic Richard. Tucker died shortly after the Vietnam Ese shot his of tic crusader Jet out of the skies Over Hon Gay City on april 24, 1967. Tucker was flying ahead of eight bombers that had targeted rail line when he was shot Down the Pilot s remains were repatriated nov. 25 after family members and . Officials agreed not to disclose detail about the Case thai might Embarrass of Jet fighters intercept 2 soviet planes Anchorage Alaska up air Force Jet fighters intercepted two soviet bombers flying along Alaska s Aleutian Island Chain in the North Pacific Mili tary officials reported thursday. Two air Force Fli Eagle jul fighter were launched from their Kin Salmon base on the Alaska Peninsula to head off two soviet hear h bombers Hying Nea Alaska in the midday wednesday encounter said master sgt. George Craw Ford of the Alaska air come Ai eur non do fair Force base in Anchorage. Crawford said the clan Cal approach Eoa Merican soil by the soviet Plincik  128 Miles South of Adak an Island in the Middle of the Aleutian Chain where the United slates maintains a naval air Sta Tion that serves As the Baw for Nav planes Hunting soviet submarines. The intercept Mission required midair refuelling by Kc-ij5 tinkers based in Fairbanks Crawford said. Radar detected the soviet plane entering the . Air defense identification zone without notification. Vietnam. Tucker was buried March 4 Wilh full military honors in Arlington National cemetery. His Case has infuriated activists in the pow Mia movement the newspaper re ported. They claim it demonstrate the Lack of bargaining Power the United states has in dealing with the Vietnam Ese and the Lack of Good Faith and honesty of the vietnamese. We knew All along what they were doing with him and we could t do any thing about  said one source familiar Wilh the Case who requested anonymity. A Huy thong press officer at the vietnamese Mission in new York said he had no specific information about the Tucker Case or any of four other sets of remains that were returned at the same Lime. Tucker s family has refused 0 discuss details of the Case. After the funeral Brief summary of Tucker s Downing was distributed by the Navy but it made no mention of use of Tucker s remains for medical research. The question of research on Tucker s remains is prominent however in a narrative of the Case written by Tow army joint casually Resolution Center in Hawaii. The narrative was presented several times to the vietnamese during meetings on the pow Mia Issue. We have received numerous accounts which state Hal an american Pilot was captured near Hon Gay City and taken to the City Hospital where he subsequently died of nil wounds the narrative reads. The accounts further state that after his death his Skeleton was prepared an used As a teaching Aid in the medical school of Quang Ninh province in hangar City the narrative continues. These reports were provided by persons formerly associated Wilh either the medi Cal school or the Hospital and were received Over a period of several  it. Cmdr. Scot Wilson a Nav spokesman refused to comment on the reports of the misuse of Tucker s re Mains. It. Col. Keith Schneider a spokesman for the defense intelligence Agency which analyses reports on american servicemen still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia also declined comment on the Tucker Case. 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