Officers say they've recognized the stays of a 19-year-old U.S. Military airman who was killed throughout World Warfare II. The Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company (DPAA) introduced Friday that U.S. Military Air Forces Workers Sgt. Richard G. Salsbury of Canaan, Maine, was accounted for in September 2021.
Salsbury was a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down throughout Operation TIDAL WAVE, a serious bombing mission focusing on oil refineries in Romania, on Aug. 1, 1943. He was recognized final yr by means of DNA, dental and anthropological evaluation, officers stated Friday.
Salsbury shall be buried in his hometown at a later date.
Officers say he was amongst 80 fallen service members whose stays have been moved from Bolovan Cemetery after the warfare to Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, each in Belgium. In 2017, the Protection Division started exhuming stays and trying to determine them.
Salsbury's identify is amongst lacking service members on the Tablets of the Lacking on the Florence American Cemetery in Italy. A rosette shall be positioned subsequent to his identify to point he has been accounted for.
Based on newspaper clipping launched by DPAA, Salsbury enlisted on January 5, 1942 — the day after his 18th birthday.
U.S. soldier killed in WWII recognized 3 years after ID tags discovered
Additionally on Friday, the Protection Division stated that they had recognized the stays of an Military soldier from South Carolina who was killed throughout World Warfare II. DPAA introduced that Military Workers Sgt. Grady H. Canup, 30, was accounted for on Jan. 26, 2022 — three years after his ID tag was present in Germany.
Canup was killed on Nov. 14, 1944, whereas combating within the battle for Hürtgen Forest east of the Belgian–German border when enemy artillery hearth hit close to his foxhole. Due to the combating, his physique couldn't be recovered.
Canup was "declared non-recoverable in December 1951" — however a long time later, a DPAA historian decided that one set of unidentified stays, initially found by a German forester and recovered in 1947, probably belonged to Canup. In the meantime, in 2019, Canup's identification tag was discovered within the Hürtgen Forest within the normal location of the place DPAA historians believed he was misplaced.
His stays have been lastly recognized this yr by means of DNA, dental and anthropological evaluation in addition to circumstantial and materials proof, officers stated Friday.
Based on a newspaper clipping launched by DPAA, Canup left behind a spouse and younger daughter.
Canup shall be buried on April 10, 2022, in Anderson, South Carolina.