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Posted on 04/17/2009 8:39:40 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
He is Staff Sgt. Jimmie Doyle, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Lamesa, Texas. He will be buried April 25 in Lamesa.
Representatives from the Army’s Mortuary Affairs Office met with Doyle’s next-of-kin in his hometown to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.
On September 1, 1944, Doyle was one of eleven men on board a B-24J Liberator bomber that was shot down while on a bombing reconnaissance mission of enemy targets near the town of Koror, Republic of Palau. Three of the crewmen parachuted from the aircraft and died while prisoners of the Japanese, and the other eight crewmen, including Doyle, went down with the plane into the sea between Babelthuap and Koror islands.
In 2004, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team conducted an underwater investigation of aircraft wreckage submerged off the southern coast of Babelthuap Island. Between 2005 and 2008, combined JPAC/U.S. Navy Mobile Diving and Salvage teams excavated the site three times and recovered human remains and material evidence, including machine guns bearing serial numbers that match those of guns mounted on this plane, and identification media for three of the crewmen on the plane.
Among dental records, other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of Doyle’s remains.
Until They Are Home
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RIP and thank you for your service. Amen to the family for closure.
God Bless another Texan and patriot...
Here is a post from their website:
P-MAN XI Update #15 - This says it all
02 March 2009
Jimmie Doyle was the nose gunner on B-24 '453, which was shot down just north of Koror on 1 September 1944 and which the BentProp team finally located in Palau in 2004 after a 10-year search. JPAC did recovery missions on that underwater site in 2005, 2006, and 2008. Their recovery teams located several sets of remains, which were returned for identification to JPAC's forensic lab at Hickam AFB, Hawaii at the end of each of those missions. Until identification of all remains from a particular site is as complete as they can make it, JPAC generally does not release information about any individual from that site. The following note was sent to us today by Jimmie's son, Tommy Doyle, and his wife Nancy.
From Tommy and Nancy Doyle
2 March 2009
Hi Everybody...that would be any and everyone currently or in the past connected with any part of the discovery or excavation and recovery of the crew of the '453 whose email address I have...
We got it, Guys...OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF JIMMIE'S REMAINS RECOVERED FROM THE '453. Saturday we attended our 4th DoD POW/MIA Family Update in Albuquerque. Johnie Webb and Tom Holland personally gave us the notification.
We're on the last leg of this long, long road...and it's all because of you and many more.
Please feel free to pass on this news to anyone else who should know.
We'll be in touch.
We love all of you.
Nancy and Tommy
BTTT
Welcome home, Shipmate.
/johnny
Welcome home and thank you.
A B-24J bomber (for those folks who might never have seen a picture of one)
Finally, back home in Texas.
Welcome home and Rest in Peace.
Staff Sgt. Jimmie Doyle, welcome home son. Thank you for your ultimate sacrifice.
mrs
God Bless SSgt Doyle and his family. I am glad another patriot is home after so very long. Sounds like Bent Prop does fine work.
RIP SSgt Jimmie Doyle
BTTT
BTTT
Welcome home faithful servant.
Rest in Peace, Jimmie.
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