The remains of a U.S. Air Force officer have been identified nearly eight decades after his plane was shot down during World War II.
The Pentagon agencies responsible for identifying and bringing home America's war dead have long been criticized by frustrated families John Holoka, Jr., a 25-year-old technical sergeant from Cresson, Pennsylvania, was killed in action in June 1944, authorities announced recently.
Officials say Holoka was one of 10 airmen on board a B-24H Liberator bomber that was struck and badly damaged by anti-aircraft following a raid on a German airfield in Saint-Cyr-l'École, France, near Versailles, on June 22, 1944. Holoka was assigned to the crew as an engineer, according to the DPAA.
Montgomery then ordered the crew to bail out, allowing seven airmen to parachute to safety before the plane ultimately crashed with Montgomery, Holoka and one other member of the crew still inside. Two crew members who landed safely on the ground reported seeing the aircraft crash into a farm in West Sussex, according to DPAA.
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