Missing Texan lost in famous WWII air raid on Romanian oil refinery is now identified
First Lt. Louis V. Girard was 20 when he was listed as missing in action in the disastrous U.S. bombing raid on oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania, in 1943. His remains were identified using DNA analysis and he will be buried June 4 in his hometown of West, Texas.The outbreak of war swept Louis V. Girard far from his hometown of West in Central Texas, taking him into the U.S. Army Air Forces flying dangerous missions against the Nazis in a B-24 Liberator bomber.
A first lieutenant, Girard was a co-pilot on a famous air raid of 177 aircraft that attempted to bomb oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania in a mission called Operation Tidal Wave. The stress was on presumed — no one actually knew for sure if Girard, 20, had been killed because his body could not be identified.
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