Saint Joseph,MI : Remains of WWII veteran to be laid to rest in Michigan on November, Thursday 23th 2017

The remains of a Michigan veteran killed during World War II have been recovered and will be returned home.

Navy Airman Albert Rybarczyk of St. Joseph was reported missing in action in 1944. He was 22 when his plane went down in the South Pacific during a bombing mission.

Rybarczyk was a radio man because, at 6-feet-2-inches tall, he was two inches too tall to be a pilot. He was part of Air Group 18 and stationed on the USS Intrepid.

Rybarczyk’s plane released a bomb but was too low. The explosion tore off the plane’s tail and caused it to spin into the water.

Project Recover and the BentProp Project have been trying to reach the wreckage for more than a decade. The volunteer organization aims to find the remains of World War II veterans who went missing in action.

The BentProp Project, the Scripps Oceanographic Institute and University of Delaware found the crash site in 2014 by using autonomous robotic vehicles and an underwater sonar system.

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Remains of WWII veteran to be laid to rest in Michigan