He is finally going home.
The remnants of an aircraft whose aircraft was shot over Romania during World War II are being returned to their family 78 years later, According to the Anchorage Daily News.
US Army Air Force Tech. Alfred “Fred” Turgen of Sgt Kordova, Alaska, was just 23 years old when he was killed in a mission known as “Operation Tidal Wave”.
He was one of the hundreds of airmen who died Daylight bombardment Of Nazi oil refineries in Romania.
Tarzan and nine others were killed from his plane after his plane caught fire.
Because his remains had been unknown for so long, Turin’s mother and older sister always prayed that he survive death, nephew David Bass told the newspaper.
“They always hoped that maybe he was a prisoner of war camp or that he had amnesia and didn’t know who he was and was alive in Europe – the same sort of thing I’m sure probably every mother who loses. Gai was expecting someone in World War II, “Bass said.
The nephew got a call a week ago about the remains of the tergine US Department of Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency.
“It was a really emotional moment for all of us,” he said.
The agency used the DNA of Bass and other relatives to identify the remains. Turgen is to be buried in Washington State with full military honors next to his elder sister.
“It’s a great closure for us as a family,” Bass said. “I wish my mother was still alive to be able to see it.”
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