US EditionWWII Airman Shot Down Honored on Memorial Day Weekend After Returning Home
- Lieutenant Thomas V. Kelly, a World War II bombardier shot down off New Guinea in 1944, was honored on Memorial Day weekend in Livermore, California after his remains were recovered.
- Kelly's plane, a B-24D named Heaven Can Wait, went missing during a bombing mission on March 11, 1944, and the crew of 11 was declared killed in action with bodies unrecoverable for decades.
- After Kelly's cousin Scott Althaus began researching in 2013, Project Recover used family research and underwater robotics to locate the wreckage at about 225 feet deep in 2017, prompting a military recovery mission.
- In 2023, Navy divers recovered Kelly’s remains along with those of three other crew members, identifying Kelly through DNA and personal items including a ring marked 'bombardier'.
- Kelly’s return ended 81 years of uncertainty and grief for his family, with a funeral service planned in Livermore and plans for a memorial honoring fallen service members underway.
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Pa. man ‘amazed’ remains of his uncle killed in WW II were found and identified
At Dubois man says he was “amazed” to learn that, after all these years, the remains of his uncle from Williamsport, who died in a plane crash while on a World War II mission, had been retrieved from the Baltic Sea and identified.
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