The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. John Holoka Jr., 25, of Cresson, Pennsylvania, killed during World War II, and was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023.
Tech. Sgt. John Holoka Jr., 25, of Cresson, Pennsylvania, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on March 22, 2023. Holoka will be buried in Portage on May 1. A Pennsylvania soldier killed during World War II has finally been located and identified and will be buried in his home state in May.
Holoka was serving in the summer of 1944 with the 844th Bombardment Squadron, 489th Bombardment Group , Eighth Air Force. Despite the damage to the B-24 Liberator, the pilot was able to nurse the aircraft until it was over the English coast, whereupon he ordered his crew to bail out. Seven of the airmen parachuted successfully while the other three crew members, including Holoka, were still on board. Two of the crew witnessed the aircraft crashed into a farm in West Sussex, England.”
An aviation archaeology group, the agency said, tried to excavate the crash site in 1974, to search for aircraft parts.
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