Salsbury will be buried in his hometown at a later date.
Friday that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Richard G. Salsbury of Canaan, Maine, was accounted for in September 2021.Salsbury was a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down during Operation TIDAL WAVE, a major bombing mission targeting oil refineries in Romania, on Aug. 1, 1943. He was identified last year through DNA, dental and anthropological analysis, officials said Friday.Salsbury was a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down in Romania, on Aug. 1, 1943.
Salsbury's name is among missing service members on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery in Italy. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. According to newspaper clipping released by DPAA, Salsbury enlisted on January 5, 1942 — the day after his 18th birthday.Also on Friday, the Defense Department said they had identified the remains of an Army soldier from South Carolina who was killed during World War II. DPAAthat Army Staff Sgt. Grady H. Canup, 30, was accounted for on Jan. 26, 2022 — three years after his ID tag was found in Germany.
Canup was killed on Nov. 14, 1944, while fighting in the battle for Hürtgen Forest east of the Belgian–German border when enemy artillery fire hit near his foxhole. Because of the fighting, his body could not be recovered.Canup was"declared non-recoverable in December 1951" — but decades later, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, originally discovered by a German forester and recovered in 1947, possibly belonged to Canup.
His remains were finally identified this year through DNA, dental and anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial and material evidence, officials said Friday.Canup will be buried on April 10, 2022, in Anderson, South Carolina.
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