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. After the war, Howie’s remains were never identified, the agency said.
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. In 2017, the agency exhumed the unidentified remains and sent them to a laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for examination and identification, the agency said.
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