{"id":116315,"date":"2026-02-17T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116315\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:31:07","slug":"remains-of-19-year-old-pennsylvania-airman-killed-in-world-war-ii-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116315\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of 19-year-old Pennsylvania airman killed in World War II identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years later, the remains of a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man killed in World War II have been identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Fatur of Slickville, Westmoreland County, has been accounted for, the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fatur was assigned to 429th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force, serving as the tailgunner on a B-17G &#8220;Flying Fortress&#8221; bomber.   <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kdka-stephen-fatur.png#.png\" alt=\"kdka-stephen-fatur.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Fatur of Slickville, Westmoreland County, has been accounted for, the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency announced.<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency)<\/p>\n<p>On March 22, 1945, during a mission near the village of Glinica, Poland, Fatur&#8217;s aircraft crashed, killing seven of the ten crewmembers. But his remains were never accounted for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the war, the American Graves Registration Command searched for the remains of U.S. servicemen in Europe in an effort to give them honored burials, but the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency said the Soviet occupation in countries like Poland &#8220;severely limited&#8221; investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From 2019 to 2024, the agency said it partnered with archaeologists to conduct excavations at the site where Fatur&#8217;s aircraft crashed. Human remains were found, which were sent to a laboratory for analysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DPAA said anthropological analysis, circumstantial evidence and DNA evidence allowed scientists to identify Fatur last July. The news was just announced because his family received their full briefing.<\/p>\n<p>A rosette will be placed by his name at the Courts of the Missing in Honolulu. He&#8217;ll be buried in Delmont on a date yet to be announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty years later, the remains of a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man killed in World War II have been identified.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-116315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}