(WBAP/KLIF) — A Texan who died when his World War II bomber was shot down is finally coming home for burial.
The Defense Department says Tech Sergeant Frank A. Norris of Quinlan was a 23-year-old flight engineer aboard a B-24 Liberator. He was part of the biggest allied raid on Romania’s Ploesti oil fields when German anti-aircraft shot the bomber down on August 1st, 1943.
Norris couldn’t be identified until DNA analysis made it possible last year. He’s to be buried on April 30th in Paynetown cemetery near Quinlan.
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