The remains of Sgt. John P. Bonnassiolle, a crewman in a B-24J bomber that went down over Germany in 1944, have been identified and returned to his family, Defense Department officials have announced. Bonnassiolle, a native of Oakland, Calif., will be buried Tuesday in San Francisco with full military honors. He was a one of 10 airmen lost on April 29, 1944, when their B-24 crashed near the town of East Meitze, Germany, north of Hannover, during a bombing raid against Berlin. DOD-led excavations of the crash site in 2005 and 2007 recovered remains and crew-related equipment, including Bonnassiolle’s identification tags, that led to his identification. (DOD release)
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the site of U.S. Space Command’s future home Dec. 12 and endorsed the move to establish the headquarters in Alabama after years of political back and forth.
