Son of Ephraim K Seifreid and Anna Katherine Graf Seifried both born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. TSGT Harold Seifreid, 31, was serving with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group in India on Dec. 1, 1943, when his B-24 Liberator was shot down during a bombing mission over a rail yard north of the city of Rangoon, now known as Yangon. The crew flew another 60 miles before crashing near Yodayadet, Burma (now Myanmar). They were buried in two large grave sites by the locals at the direction of Japanese forces in the area. The remains were re-interred in 1947by the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In 2020, the remains were exhumed for DNA identification. In February 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced it had identified Seifreid's remains through a comparison with DNA from Harold's extended family members. On Friday, 20 April 2024, he was inurned at Arizona Veterans Memorial with his nephew, niece, and great niece present and with full military honors performed by service members from Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, 20 April 204
Serviceman killed in WWII finally buried in Marana: 'Home at last, never forgotten'
https://tucson.com/news/local/world-war-ii-casualty-buried-after-dna-identification-marana-arizona/article_f0c6ea5e-fe56-11ee-b507-0b96d9a07a48.html
Son of Ephraim K Seifreid and Anna Katherine Graf Seifried both born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. TSGT Harold Seifreid, 31, was serving with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group in India on Dec. 1, 1943, when his B-24 Liberator was shot down during a bombing mission over a rail yard north of the city of Rangoon, now known as Yangon. The crew flew another 60 miles before crashing near Yodayadet, Burma (now Myanmar). They were buried in two large grave sites by the locals at the direction of Japanese forces in the area. The remains were re-interred in 1947by the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In 2020, the remains were exhumed for DNA identification. In February 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced it had identified Seifreid's remains through a comparison with DNA from Harold's extended family members. On Friday, 20 April 2024, he was inurned at Arizona Veterans Memorial with his nephew, niece, and great niece present and with full military honors performed by service members from Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, 20 April 204
Serviceman killed in WWII finally buried in Marana: 'Home at last, never forgotten'
https://tucson.com/news/local/world-war-ii-casualty-buried-after-dna-identification-marana-arizona/article_f0c6ea5e-fe56-11ee-b507-0b96d9a07a48.html
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