The modern day photographs are from the New Orleans Pearl Harbor Day Parade in 2001.  Jeff DeBlanc was one of the featured pilots in the episode of the current History Channel series .  Both U.S. Marine veteran aviators are wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor about their respective collars as they participated in the festivities surrounding the Grand Opening for the Pacific Wing of the New Orleans D-Day Museum.

As a disturbing footnote, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the D-Day Museum felt the full force of the wrath exacted by the looters and vandals who essentially ruled much of the city for several weeks.

sumrica wrote on Dec 9^th, 2006 at 12:03am:

Pretty close - Saint Martinville in Saint Martin , Louisiana (

county

in other states).  My pharmacist attended Mass there last weekend, and recounted visiting with DeBlanc afterward.  The kindly old gentleman was in good spirits despite chronic vision problems.  A retired high school science teacher, Deblanc continues to serve the public as a docent in a local Nature Trail operation where he stresses conservation education and environmental awareness.