Lost to family for 79 years, World War II gunnery airman coming home for Florida burial
Fred Barton and his wife, Joan, have been waiting 79 years for this homecoming.
Situated halfway between Wood’s former home in Georgia and some distant cousins in Florida, the burial in the In August of 1943, war raged around the world. The Allies fought Germans in Sicily; Nazis had taken Denmark; the U.S. and Canada had invaded islands in the Aleutians; nearly 3,000 Romani were gassed at Auschwitz; and Operation Tidal Wave, Wood’s mission, would begin the mission to bomb oil refineries in Ploiesti, Romania.
“These planes are mostly used for high altitude bombing operations," Bell said. "This attack would be launched at only altitudes of between 100 and 300 feet in order to provide more precise bomb delivery.” There were 80 servicemen who could not be identified and who were moved to the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium. There, for the next 74 years, Wood would wait to be brought home.In 2017, the Defense Pow/MIA Accounting Agency began exhuming unknown soldiers thought to be airmen from Operation Tidal Wave.
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