Nearly 68 years after a Massachusetts airman took off on a reconnaissance flight over the South Pacific during World War II, his remains have been found and are en route home to America for burial with full military honors. U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Martin Murray was piloting a B-24D Liberator plane that took off from an airfield on the island of New Guinea on Oct. 27, 1943, with 11 other crewmen aboard. He was flying a reconnaissance mission over shipping lanes in the Bismarck Sea, ahead of an attack on Japanese forces nearby. But the mission was scrapped midflight because of bad weather, and flight controllers instructed Murray to land the plane at a friendly airstrip on an island nearby.
The plane never landed, and the crew's fate -- until now -- was unknown.
68 Years Later, WWII Airman's Body Found in Pacific Wikipedia The remains of a Massachusetts airman, whose B-24 Liberator plane, like the one above, disappeared in the South Pacific during World War II, were found in New Guinea and are headed home to America for burial with full military honors. After World War II, the U.S. military searched for the missing plane and crew, but.......
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I hope they can locate living family members of the rest of the crew so they can all be identified.
