Airmen Missing From WWII Accounted For, 69 Years After Death

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http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fallen-Soldiers-WWII-Airmen-Valorie-Pollard-Dominick-Licari-Air-Force-Remains-Recovered-223569241.html

Nearly seven decades after their bomber plane went down in modern day Papua New Guinea, two World War II U.S. servicemen are going to get a proper burial with full military honors, the U.S. Department of Defense announced this week.

Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Valorie L. Pollard of Monterey, Calif., and Sgt. Dominick J. Licari of Frankfort, NY, were killed after attacking enemy targets on March 13, 1944.

Crew members of an A-20G Havoc bomber, the men crashed in the mountains of a country known today as Papua New Guinea, according to the DOD. Last year, that crash site was excavated and the servicemen’s remains were recovered.

Now, 69 years after they perished, the fallen soldiers will be laid to rest on U.S. soil.

[Scuba]

1. RIP comrades.