Brookline airman who went missing in WWII being laid to rest
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. Army Air Forces officer from Massachusetts is being laid to rest more than 70 years after he went missing in World War II.
A funeral with full military honors for 2nd Lt. Richard M. Horwitz, of Brookline, is scheduled for Sunday at a family plot at a West Roxbury.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says the 22-year-old Horwitz was the radar navigator on a B24 Liberator that crashed into the Adriatic Sea after a Feb. 28, 1945 attack on a railroad bridge in northern Italy.
The bomber’s wreckage was located by an Italian citizen off the coast of Grado, Italy in 2013, and remains were recovered in 2015.
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Horwitz’s remains were identified through DNA as well as historical evidence and dental and bone analysis.
