U.S. Army WWII MIA/KIA. PFC Mervyn E. Sims was lost April 24, 1943 when his Army Cargo plane went down in the Himalayas with four other service members. The U.S. Army Air Forces member of the 3rd Squadron, 1st Ferry Group, Service # 39090815, was lost over the Himalayas while aboard a C-87 Liberator Express aircraft enroute to India from Yangkai, China. The aircraft was flying the "Hump," the World War II term for the 500-mile route between bases in India that airlifted supplies to Chinese forces fighting invaders from Japan. Search efforts failed to find the crew, and the men, including 23-year-old Sims, were declared dead on January 8, 1946 and entered into the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines. In 2003 an Archeologist trekking in the mountains near the border of India and Myanmar, an area off-limits to the U.S. military, found some remains and turned them over to the Army. These remains were identified on November 12, 2010 as Army Pfc. Mervyn Earl Sims of Petaluma. Almost 68 years later, he was buried with full military honors at Petaluma's Cypress Hill Memorial Park where his parents and sister are interred.
U.S. Army WWII MIA/KIA. PFC Mervyn E. Sims was lost April 24, 1943 when his Army Cargo plane went down in the Himalayas with four other service members. The U.S. Army Air Forces member of the 3rd Squadron, 1st Ferry Group, Service # 39090815, was lost over the Himalayas while aboard a C-87 Liberator Express aircraft enroute to India from Yangkai, China. The aircraft was flying the "Hump," the World War II term for the 500-mile route between bases in India that airlifted supplies to Chinese forces fighting invaders from Japan. Search efforts failed to find the crew, and the men, including 23-year-old Sims, were declared dead on January 8, 1946 and entered into the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines. In 2003 an Archeologist trekking in the mountains near the border of India and Myanmar, an area off-limits to the U.S. military, found some remains and turned them over to the Army. These remains were identified on November 12, 2010 as Army Pfc. Mervyn Earl Sims of Petaluma. Almost 68 years later, he was buried with full military honors at Petaluma's Cypress Hill Memorial Park where his parents and sister are interred.
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