Coming Home: WWII Hero’s Remains Returned to Brooklyn After 83 Years

Coming Home: WWII Hero’s Remains Returned to Brooklyn After 83 Years

Pallbearers carry Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Governale’s casket from the church to a waiting hearse for the journey to Linden Hills Cemetery, where he is to be laid to rest alongside his parents and siblings. The hearse will drive past his former home in Bushwick before heading to the cemetery. (Photo: Paula Katinas) WILLIAMSBURG — Eighty-three years after he was killed in a wartime plane crash in the South Pacific, the remains of a World War II air…