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Marilyn Walton. is a graduate of The Ohio State University. She has written six books for children, including the successful Celebration Series for Raintree-Steck-Vaughn. Her book, Chameleons' Rainbow, won a Children's Choice award in 1986. She and her husband, a retired Miami University professor, raised three sons in Oxford, Ohio, where they currently reside. After locating her father's crew and their relatives, she was instrumental in finding the crew families of the B-24, "Belle of Boston," that crashed in England in 1944. She currently conducts World War II research to assist other families in learning the history of their fathers' war experiences and in finding relatives of the crews. With 78,000 American World War II men missing in action, of which 38,000 are considered recoverable, she works with other researchers trying to locate the remains of these men so that they can finally be brought home.Walton, Marilyn Jeffers is the author of 'Rhapsody in Junk: A Daughter's Return to Germany to Finish Her Father's Story', published 2007 under ISBN 9781425974862 and ISBN 1425974864.
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