The remains of a United States Army soldier from Waterbury who was killed during World War II have been identified and he will be buried in October. The U.S. Army Human Resources Command has identified the soldier as Army Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney Jr., a native of Waterbury. He was 22 years old when he died. Sweeney was assigned to…
The remains of a United States Army soldier from Waterbury who was killed during World War II have been identified and he will be buried in October.
The U.S. Army Human Resources Command has identified the soldier as Army Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney Jr., a native of Waterbury. He was 22 years old when he died. Sweeney was assigned to Company I, 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division and his unit was in battle with German forces near Strass, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported missing in action Dec. 16. 1944.
The American Graves Registration Command conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but they were unable to recover or identify Sweeney’s remains.As the years went on, a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency determined that one set of unidentified remains that had been recovered from a minefield north of Kleinhau, Germany in 1946 and buried in Ardennes American Cemetery in 1950 possibly belonged to Sweeney.
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