From the August 18, 2022 KIII TV by Haley Williams (Kill).
The remains of a man killed in WW II are coming home to South Texas after 77 years, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
The remains of Sgt. Herald R. Boyd, a San Patricio County native were positively identified on July 8, 2022.
Boyd was serving as a gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber of February 3, 1945, when his aircraft was hit by a ground rocket immediately after dropping its bombs on the Tempelhof marshalling yard in Berlin.
The pilot tried to save his plane, but was unsuccessful and it crashed into a residential ares of Berlin. Seven of the nine crew members were kiled. The other two were captured and became prisoners of war.
After the war, the American Graves Registration Command began to investigate and recover missing American personnel in Europe. 115 sets of remains were recovered from the Doberitz Cemetery in Berlin near the end of 1946.
By the end of 19556, six of th seven dead on his plane had been identified. Boyd's remains were thought to be Unknown X-4804, but could not be proven. and they were buried at Ardennes-American Cemetery in Belgium in 1957.
They were disinterred in June 2018 and sent to Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for indentification. They were positively identified through DNA.
He will now be buried in Corpus Christi on September 12 at the Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery.
Thanks to the DPAA. --GreGen
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