Remains of a soldier killed in Nazi war crimes returned to the bay area – patch

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An employee of the US Army SGT. YUEN HOP OF SEBASTOPOL was an artillery with the Waist of a Flying Fortress B-17 when it was removed from an anti-aircraft fire on December 29, 1944, in the bombing mission in Bingen, Germany to support the Battle of the Blow, according to the bombing of the accounting agency POW/MIA.

All crew members managed to parachute from the plane before it crashed. Five successfully landed and were taken as warfarers by German soldiers. A crew member was found dead by German soldiers in the forest near Oesterich, Germany.

The other three crew members, including Hop, were unrecognized and there was no evidence that they were being kept like warfarers.

In 1946, the US Grave Registration Command, an organization that sought and restored fallen Americans in Europe, began investigating several places for crashes from the Downloaded Airplane Airplane Airplane in Bingen. Local German citizens were interviewed and several accounts were recorded seeing US troops landing on parachutes.

Investigations have been going on for several years, but by April 1950 the command of graves registering all the efforts to restore the three missing men and issued a recommendation that they have been declared unfulfilled.

“In 2013 “, Pow Pow /MIA agency said.

Between May 2021 and August 2022, teams from the POW/MIA agency began excavation of suspected funeral at the Kamp-Bornhofen Cemetery. The team restored possible bone remains and related materials.

These articles were transferred to the laboratory of the Agency for Analysis and Identification, the agency said. The analysis and the set of circumstantial evidence establishes a link between part of the remains and hop. It was identified on June 18, 2024.

On Friday, the ark, draped by the flag of Hop, was welcomed at San Francisco International Airport by his only living sister, 93-year-old Margery Wong of San Francisco, along with his family, a San Francisco police station said.

A police motor accompanied the procession to Serra’s morgue in Dali in Grad Dali. A memorial service will be held at 11am February 7 at Duggan’s, 500 Westlake Avenue. Hop will be laid to rest with full honors at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno.

His parents, Jin and Chan Hop; His three brothers James Hop, How Hop and Yeh Hop (all of whom served in the US military) and two of his sisters, Ho Wu and Doris Wong, all died while he was referred to as disappeared.

Its name is recorded on the wall of the disappeared in the American Cemetery of Laurera in Saint-Predent, France. A rosette will be placed next to its name to point out that it is now reported, according to POW/MIA.