The Second World War launcher “Paradise can wait” to kill 11 American pilots. Now 4 is finally set for rest.

While the Second World War striker, “Heaven Can Wait”, was hit by the enemy’s fire off the Pacific Island in New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co -pilot managed to finalize the pamphlets in a neighboring plane before it collided with water.

All 11 men were killed on board. Their remains, deeply below the vast sea, were appointed as non -refundable.

However, the remains of four crew members began to return to their hometown after a wonderful investigation by family members and a recovery task that included the seafarers who landed on 200 feet in a compressed bell to reach the sea floor.

Sergeant employees. Eugene Dryjan, the radio operator with military honors and community support on Saturday in his hometown of Winjars Fols, New York, was buried after more than eight decades of leaving his wife and son the child.

Bombardier, the second Lieutenant Thomas Kelly was buried on Monday in Levermor, California, where he grew up in the livestock family. The remains of the pilot, First Lieutenant Herbert TenisonNavigator, second Lieutenant Donald Shipbec, will enter in the coming months.

The celebrations occurred 12 years after a relative of Kelly, Scott Althous, to solve the mystery of the place where the plane fell exactly.

“I am very grateful,” he told Associated Press. “It was an impossible journey – it was never possible to reach this day. Here, we are 81 years later.”

The Army Air Force plane, nicknamed “Heaven Can Wait”, was with a cartoon owners drawn on its nose and a crew of 11 on its last flight.

They were on a mission to bomb Japanese targets when the plane was shot down. Military officials believe that aircraft control fire hit the plane, causing one of the bombs that was carrying it, the captive accounting agency/Mia Defense. He said in a press release. Other flyers in the task were unable to discover survivors.

“After the bombing operated the formation that revolves around the right and sought with perspectives to see the signs of the survivors,” the sergeant. Arnold Smith, waist artillery on another plane in the composition, He said at that time. “I couldn’t see any evidence that the bodies remained on the roof.”

“You never stopped faith”

The wives, parents and siblings who died on “the sky could wait” were from a generation that tended to be tight in their grief. But the men have missed heavily.

ShePPICK, 26, and TenNyson, 24, each left behind the wives of pregnant women who sometimes write two or three messages per day. Darjan, 26, was married, and was able to attend his son’s baptism during his vacation. He shows a picture in the uniform, smiling while carrying the boy.

Dargan’s wife, Florence, married, but calmly holding on the pictures of her late husband, as well as a telegram to teach her to his death.

Tenison’s wife, Jean, lived up to 96 years old and never married.

Her grandson Scott Jefferson said: “She never stopped believing that he would return home,” said her grandson Scott Jefferson.

With the anniversary approaching twelve years ago, Althous, his mother, asked the names of the relatives who died in World War II.

Althaus, a professor of political science and communications at the University of Illinois Urbana Champin, became curious while searching for losses in World War II to work. His mother gave him the name of her cousin, Thomas Kelly, who was 21 years old when he was reported to be lost at work.

Althaus recalled that, as a boy, he visited Stone Kelly’s Memorial Stone, who has a striker. Reading began on the lost plane.

“It was a mystery that I truly discovered for my extended family,” he said.

With the help of other relatives, he analyzed historical documents and pictures and remembered eyewitnesses. They sometimes weighing conflicting accounts of the place where the plane fell. After a four -year achievement, Althaus wrote a report that concluded that the bomber had been likely to start from Awar Point in what is now known as Papua New Guinea.

The report has been shared with Project Recovery, a non -profit organization committed to finding and returning the missing American service members and partner of the Pow/MIA, or DPAA. Located in Ocean Science, a team of Project Recovery, led by researchers from the SCRIPPS Institute in Ocean Science, is located in the Hadam field in 2017 after searching for about 10 square miles from the sea floor.

DPAA launched the deepest underwater recovery task in 2023.

The marine diving team has regained the marks of dogs, including the Darrigan brand partially in the name of his wife, Florence, as an emergency contact. Kelly ring has been recovered. The stone went, but the word Bombardier was still read.

Treming is still undergoing DNA test. Last September, the army has officially surveyed Darrigan, Kelly, Sheppick and Tennyson.

With the presence of seven men who were on the plane still missing, the future DPAA mission to the site is possible.

Pilots put to rest

More than 200 people honored Darrigan on Saturday at Wapppsers Falls, some flags waving the sidewalk during the procession to the church, while others live in a cemetery under a cloudy sky.

“After 80 years, this great soldier has returned to the house to rest,” said Susan Pinero.

Ibn Darjan died in 2020, but his grandson Eric Shindler attended.

The niece of the 85 -year -old Darrigan, Virginia Pinero, officially accepted the folded science.

Kelly’s remains arrived in the Gulf region on Friday. The two were to be buried in the plot of his family’s cemetery, directly by the brand with the bomber engraved. A motorcycle of the motorcycle drivers will pass by motorcyclists in foreign wars by the home and the old secondary school of Kelly before interfering.

“I think it is very unlikely that the memory of Tom Kelly will fade soon,” said Althous, a volunteer with the project recovery project.

ShePPICK will be buried in the coming months near his parents in a cemetery in the coal center, Pennsylvania. His niece, Deborah Winland, said that she believes that her late father, her younger brother, would like it in this way. The son Spek has never met, died due to cancer while he was in high school.

Tenison will be buried on June 27 in Wichita, Kansas. He will be buried next to his wife, Jean, who died in 2017, just months before the Hadam website.

“I think she never stopped believing that he would return to her, and that it is appropriate to prove her right,” said Jefferson.