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Seneca airman killed in WWII to be buried this week

By MSC News

10/25/2022

Seneca native and U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Moses Tate

(KMZA)--An airman from Seneca who was killed in World War II will be buried this week.

The U.S. Army says the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Moses Tate will be interred on Thursday at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery, in Springfield, Missouri, with full military honors Graveside services will be performed by the Greenlawn Funeral Home, in Branson, before the interment.

Tate was serving as a gunner aboard a B-24 Liberator aircraft on August 1, 1943 when it crashed after being hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against oil fields and refineries north of Bucharest, Romania. He was 23-years-old at the time.

His remains were not identified following the war and were buried in Romania.

In 2017, the Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. Those remains were sent to an Air Force Base, in Omaha, Nebraska, for examination and identification.

Tate was accounted for in July of this year after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence as well as dental, anthropological, and DNA analysis.

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