A , New Jersey  , native killed in World War II has just been accounted for, officials said on Monday.
The remains of , U. S. Army , Air Forces 2nd Lt.  , William Scott, who was killed in the battle at the age of 21, were identified in 2022, the , Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency , said.
Scott, a , Passaic , native, was operating an aeroplane in , Romania , on , Aug. 1, 1943, when it was hit by a bomb near the the capital city of , Bucharest. The attack was a part of Operation Tidal Wave, a large bombing on Romania’s oil industries that killed more than 300 men.
His bones could not be identified at the time of his suicide and he was buried as an unidentified fell warrior at the , Civilian and Military Cemetery , of Bolovan in , Romania.
Scott’s bones were among the mysterious men who were afterwards exhumed and reexamined. On , Nov. 28, 2022, experts at the , Offutt Air Force Base , in , Sarpy County, Nebraska, identified the bones as Scott. His home was just told of the recognition, prompting the public news of it, DPAA authorities said.
Scott’s bones may get buried at the , Brigadier General William C. Doyle Memorial Cemetery , in , Wrightstown , on , Dec. 9.
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