An Army Air Forces member who was killed 80 years ago during World War II has been identified and accounted for and will be laid to rest in his Illinois hometown days after Memorial Day.
Tech. Sgt. James Howie, who was 24 at the time, was a radio operator on a B-24 Liberator bomber on August 1, 1943, when it was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed north of Bucharest, Romania, during Operation Tidal Wave, the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said.
It’s estimated that more than 81,500 Americans remain missing from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Gulf Wars and other conflicts. More than 41,000 of those missing are presumed lost at sea, according to the agency. After the war, the American Graves Registration Command disinterred all US remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification.The agency was unable to identify more than 80 unknown soldiers from Bolovan Cemetery – and those remains were interred at Belgian cemeteries.
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