After 7 Decades Of Vanishing, Wife Uncovers The Truth Behind Her Husband’s Disappearance!

Billie could understand after extensive training that he had been hit. He had to make a decision then and there, quickly. He could either eject himself out of the plane to save himself or divert the plane away from the French townspeople and inevitably plunge towards his death. This would be an impossible feat but Billie made his mind up.

His plane had crashed in the nearby woods of the town but it did not injure anyone. And turns out, the lady who was asking for Billie’s files was from that very same town Billie had saved that resulted in his death. That woman’s name was Valerie Quesnal. They were going to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the town’s liberation.

Billie met with a lethal plane crash in the town of Les Ventes. They decided that the least it could do was honor his memory which is witnessed to date. However, the town did not have a lot of information about their hero, so they assumed the selfless pilot was a Canadian. They still speak of him fondly.

No matter where he came from, what Billie did was truly commendable. I was amazed that at such a young age Billie sacrificed himself for the sake of others, strangers he knew absolutely nothing about. Billie had always been the type to put other people’s needs before his and worked to keep others safe.

As soon as she found out where he was she shipped him to her immediately. His remains were moved to a grave in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. His selflessness and act of bravery is something the people talk about admiringly in the French town of Les Ventes to this day. It is “the most decorated grave in all of Normandy” according to CBS News.

Harvey found that “the citizens of the town snuck around when the Germans weren’t looking and had a little funeral for him and buried him in their cemetery.” His actions remained unforgettable even after all these years. According to CBS News, the townspeople march down the main road, fittingly named Place Billie D. HARRIS, three times a year. Les Ventes commemorated Billie’s grave despite his own wife being unaware.