Airman Missing In Action From WW ll is Identified Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces

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[Dubya]

Airman Missing In Action From WW ll is Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Norwalk, Conn. He will be buried on Nov. 20 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.

Representatives from the Army's Mortuary Office met with Troy's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.

On June 30, 1944, Troy was on a B-24H Liberator participating in a mission to bomb an oil refinery in Blechammer, Germany. The plane was shot down by German aircraft and crashed into a swampy area near Nemesvita, Hungary beside Lake Balaton. Seven of the crewmembers parachuted to safety where they were captured by enemy forces and subsequently released. Three crewmen died in the crash and the remains for two of them were eventually recovered and identified. Troy's remains were not recovered.

In 1999 and 2003, Hungarian citizens turned over to U.S. officials human remains supposedly recovered from Troy's crash site. In 2003 and 2005, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) teams surveyed the site.

In 2007, another JPAC team excavated the site and recovered human remains and non-biological evidence.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of Troy's remains.

Requesting prayer for the family, friends, and loved ones of Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Norwalk, Conn.

[Repeal The 17th]

Salute
and prayers for the family

[Dubya]

Soldier rest, Gently pressed,
To the calm, Mother Earth's
Waiting breast;
Duty done, Like the sun:
Going West.

SEMPER FI SOLDER, GOD BLESS YOU

[atomic conspiracy]

Welcome home, dear friend. May God cradle you in his loving arms.

[El Gato]

Rest in Peace Staff Sgt. Troy.

Thanks

[Hawk1976]

Welcome home, brave soldier.

[pabianice]

RIP, Shipmate.

[SunkenCiv]

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[cpdiii]

We always bring them home!

[andyandval]

Thank you, Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy.

And welcome home.

[Dan in Wichita]

A long lost defender of freedom and liberty has finally found his way home. Thank you, Sgt. Troy for your sacrifice to our country.

[doodad]

Wow, I am reading Masters of the Air as we speak and headed into the next chapter tonight. Those guys were men beyond all reason. I did not see a unit mentioned.

RIP Airman.

[Inyo-Mono]

Here, here!

[Godebert]

My father flew over lake Balaton with the 450th Bomb Group on the same day during a mission to bomb an airdrome in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. An observation from the S-2 intel report states: "At 0845 hours at 23,000 feet, near South of Lake Balaton, an unmarked B-24 followed the formation for about 5 minutes. It was approximately 100 feet above the unit."

Also in the air that day were the 376th, 98th, and 449th bomb groups.

[Godebert]

I found a link which might be the same plane shot down that day.

Link

[Godebert]

I’ve confirmed that the plane shot down that day was the “Miss Fortune” of the 460th BG, 760th Squadron. Sgt. Troy is in the crew photo shown in the link above.