S/Sgt James B. 'Dinty' Moore was a tail gunner on a B-24D
bomber that went down in the jungles of New Guinea during WW2 on November 20, 1943. The aircraft was located a few
years later, but was in an 'unrecoverable' position where
it would have been too dangerous to try to reach it. In 2003, sixty years later, with new technology and equipment, the aircraft was finally recovered. The remains of the entire crew of eleven men were all positively identified through DNA at the Army's Central identification Lab in Hawaii, where the remains had been taken. Finally, on August 12, 2009 'Dinty' Moore finally made it home. His remains were escorted from Logan Airport in Boston, Ma. to his hometown of Woburn by state and local police as well as a military honor guard. His funeral was on Saturday, August 15, 2009 from St. Charles Church and he was buried in Calvary Cemetery with full military honors. He was reinterred to Arlington National Cemetery on March 24, 2011 to a group grave in Section 60, Site 9644, with others he died with.
bomber that went down in the jungles of New Guinea during WW2 on November 20, 1943. The aircraft was located a few
years later, but was in an 'unrecoverable' position where
it would have been too dangerous to try to reach it. In 2003, sixty years later, with new technology and equipment, the aircraft was finally recovered. The remains of the entire crew of eleven men were all positively identified through DNA at the Army's Central identification Lab in Hawaii, where the remains had been taken. Finally, on August 12, 2009 'Dinty' Moore finally made it home. His remains were escorted from Logan Airport in Boston, Ma. to his hometown of Woburn by state and local police as well as a military honor guard. His funeral was on Saturday, August 15, 2009 from St. Charles Church and he was buried in Calvary Cemetery with full military honors. He was reinterred to Arlington National Cemetery on March 24, 2011 to a group grave in Section 60, Site 9644, with others he died with.
S/Sgt James B. 'Dinty' Moore was a tail gunner on a B-24D
bomber that went down in the jungles of New Guinea during WW2 on November 20, 1943. The aircraft was located a few
years later, but was in an 'unrecoverable' position where
it would have been too dangerous to try to reach it. In 2003, sixty years later, with new technology and equipment, the aircraft was finally recovered. The remains of the entire crew of eleven men were all positively identified through DNA at the Army's Central identification Lab in Hawaii, where the remains had been taken. Finally, on August 12, 2009 'Dinty' Moore finally made it home. His remains were escorted from Logan Airport in Boston, Ma. to his hometown of Woburn by state and local police as well as a military honor guard. His funeral was on Saturday, August 15, 2009 from St. Charles Church and he was buried in Calvary Cemetery with full military honors. He was reinterred to Arlington National Cemetery on March 24, 2011 to a group grave in Section 60, Site 9644, with others he died with.
bomber that went down in the jungles of New Guinea during WW2 on November 20, 1943. The aircraft was located a few
years later, but was in an 'unrecoverable' position where
it would have been too dangerous to try to reach it. In 2003, sixty years later, with new technology and equipment, the aircraft was finally recovered. The remains of the entire crew of eleven men were all positively identified through DNA at the Army's Central identification Lab in Hawaii, where the remains had been taken. Finally, on August 12, 2009 'Dinty' Moore finally made it home. His remains were escorted from Logan Airport in Boston, Ma. to his hometown of Woburn by state and local police as well as a military honor guard. His funeral was on Saturday, August 15, 2009 from St. Charles Church and he was buried in Calvary Cemetery with full military honors. He was reinterred to Arlington National Cemetery on March 24, 2011 to a group grave in Section 60, Site 9644, with others he died with.
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