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Burial honours 'Broken Arrow' airman

srgalahad

srgalahad

Charter Member 2022
DNA testing of the only recovered victim of the crash reveals man's identity 60 years later


The remains of an American airman found 60 years ago in British Columbia have finally been laid to rest - along with one of the Cold War's most enduring mysteries: the identity of the only recovered victim from the "Broken Arrow" incident of 1950, when a crippled U.S. bomber dropped an A-bomb into the Pacific Ocean before crashing into a B.C. mountaintop.

In a poignant Memorial Day ceremony on Friday at a cemetery in San Francisco, a few small bones from the body of U.S. air force Staff Sgt. Elbert W. Pollard were interred in the presence of his daughter, 64-year-old Betty Wheeler.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Burial+honours+Broken+Arrow+airman/6688802/story.html#ixzz1wDLOufeI

A related article about the crew:
http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/nightmare.htm
 
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