SOMERVILLE, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The remains of a Somerville native killed in World War II have been identified nearly 80 years after his death.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a press release the group accounted for the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord on Sept. 18, 2024. He died in March of 1945 after the A-26B “invader” aircraft he was serving on was shot down by anti-aircraft guns during a bombing mission to Dulmen, Germany.
After the war, U.S. officials interviewed residents in the area near Dulmen looking for reports of missing American soldiers. A local police officer told them he had seen a plane go down in the area and that the German military had secured the site and buried several airmen in a nearby cemetery. Some of those remains belonged to Lord’s crewmates…