AIR CREW BURIED 27 YEARS AFTER BOMBER'S CRASH
St. Lous, MO (UPI)--Nine crew members found in the wreckage of an airplane in the jungles of New Guinea have been buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 27 years after they were reported missing.
The airmen were aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II when it was reported missing Dec. 1, 1943, while heading back from a bombing mission against the Japanese.
A New Guinea school teacher found the airplane wreckage in heavy jungle last year near the site of two abandoned Japanese airfields. A U.S. military search team went to the area and recovered 10 bodies.
Staff Sgt. Thomas D. McNamara of St. Louis was buried in Calvary Cemetery here May 22. The other nine men wre buried with military honors at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Tuesday.
About 100 persons, most of them relatives, attended the ceremonies.
The site was selected because of its central location, military spoksmen said. A single monument will be erected at the graves.
Among those buried at the national cemetery wre T. Sgt. Uhland S. Adair, Bethesda, Md. and S. Sgt Raymond M. Phillips, Brackenridge, Pa.
The Daily Courier, Connellsville, PA edition of Thursday, June 10, 1971, Page 24.
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***I would like to thank Kenneth & Carolyn Find A Grave ID 46788418 for adding their photos to this memorial***
St. Lous, MO (UPI)--Nine crew members found in the wreckage of an airplane in the jungles of New Guinea have been buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 27 years after they were reported missing.
The airmen were aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II when it was reported missing Dec. 1, 1943, while heading back from a bombing mission against the Japanese.
A New Guinea school teacher found the airplane wreckage in heavy jungle last year near the site of two abandoned Japanese airfields. A U.S. military search team went to the area and recovered 10 bodies.
Staff Sgt. Thomas D. McNamara of St. Louis was buried in Calvary Cemetery here May 22. The other nine men wre buried with military honors at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Tuesday.
About 100 persons, most of them relatives, attended the ceremonies.
The site was selected because of its central location, military spoksmen said. A single monument will be erected at the graves.
Among those buried at the national cemetery wre T. Sgt. Uhland S. Adair, Bethesda, Md. and S. Sgt Raymond M. Phillips, Brackenridge, Pa.
The Daily Courier, Connellsville, PA edition of Thursday, June 10, 1971, Page 24.
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***I would like to thank Kenneth & Carolyn Find A Grave ID 46788418 for adding their photos to this memorial***
AIR CREW BURIED 27 YEARS AFTER BOMBER'S CRASH
St. Lous, MO (UPI)--Nine crew members found in the wreckage of an airplane in the jungles of New Guinea have been buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 27 years after they were reported missing.
The airmen were aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II when it was reported missing Dec. 1, 1943, while heading back from a bombing mission against the Japanese.
A New Guinea school teacher found the airplane wreckage in heavy jungle last year near the site of two abandoned Japanese airfields. A U.S. military search team went to the area and recovered 10 bodies.
Staff Sgt. Thomas D. McNamara of St. Louis was buried in Calvary Cemetery here May 22. The other nine men wre buried with military honors at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Tuesday.
About 100 persons, most of them relatives, attended the ceremonies.
The site was selected because of its central location, military spoksmen said. A single monument will be erected at the graves.
Among those buried at the national cemetery wre T. Sgt. Uhland S. Adair, Bethesda, Md. and S. Sgt Raymond M. Phillips, Brackenridge, Pa.
The Daily Courier, Connellsville, PA edition of Thursday, June 10, 1971, Page 24.
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***I would like to thank Kenneth & Carolyn Find A Grave ID 46788418 for adding their photos to this memorial***
St. Lous, MO (UPI)--Nine crew members found in the wreckage of an airplane in the jungles of New Guinea have been buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 27 years after they were reported missing.
The airmen were aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II when it was reported missing Dec. 1, 1943, while heading back from a bombing mission against the Japanese.
A New Guinea school teacher found the airplane wreckage in heavy jungle last year near the site of two abandoned Japanese airfields. A U.S. military search team went to the area and recovered 10 bodies.
Staff Sgt. Thomas D. McNamara of St. Louis was buried in Calvary Cemetery here May 22. The other nine men wre buried with military honors at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Tuesday.
About 100 persons, most of them relatives, attended the ceremonies.
The site was selected because of its central location, military spoksmen said. A single monument will be erected at the graves.
Among those buried at the national cemetery wre T. Sgt. Uhland S. Adair, Bethesda, Md. and S. Sgt Raymond M. Phillips, Brackenridge, Pa.
The Daily Courier, Connellsville, PA edition of Thursday, June 10, 1971, Page 24.
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***I would like to thank Kenneth & Carolyn Find A Grave ID 46788418 for adding their photos to this memorial***
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