WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of War issued the following news:

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Home at Last: Honoring the Return of a Flying Tiger

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For years, there was only a name and a legacy his family never let fade. On the afternoon of Dec. 14, family members and uniformed service members moved toward a granite headstone at a cemetery in Greenville, South Carolina, that had stood for more than eight decades without the man it was meant to honor.