WWII Airman Repatriated from Hungary
As always these stories about repatriated remains catch my eye. This time the crash site was near Nemesvita, a village in Hungary approximately 110 miles south and west of Budapest.
Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy of Norwalk, Conn. was the tail gunner on a B-24H Liberator known as “Miss Fortune.” The plane flew a mission into Germany and headed back to base in Italy when a combination of bad weather and an encounter with Messerschmitt 110s sent it down on June 30, 1944.
A seven-man JPAC team (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command) carried out the recovery. There wasn’t much left of the plane, just an engine and three prop blades.
JPAC is now attempting to locate Troy’s family. If no one is found, he could be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
(Click here for the article from Newsday.com.)
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