Technical Sergeant, 403rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Pennsylvania. Missing in Action or Buried at Sea. Officially declared dead February 25, 1946. Awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
On April 16, 1944, Tech. Sgt. Sargent was the flight engineer of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned.
In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and the remains of the Airmen aboard. His remains and those of his crew mates were recovered in 2002 and repatriated.
He is now buried at Girard Cemetery, Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and his name on the Tablets of the Missing is marked with a gold star.
He is also memorialized with his crewmates at Arlington National Cemetery.
On April 16, 1944, Tech. Sgt. Sargent was the flight engineer of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned.
In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and the remains of the Airmen aboard. His remains and those of his crew mates were recovered in 2002 and repatriated.
He is now buried at Girard Cemetery, Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and his name on the Tablets of the Missing is marked with a gold star.
He is also memorialized with his crewmates at Arlington National Cemetery.
Technical Sergeant, 403rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Pennsylvania. Missing in Action or Buried at Sea. Officially declared dead February 25, 1946. Awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
On April 16, 1944, Tech. Sgt. Sargent was the flight engineer of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned.
In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and the remains of the Airmen aboard. His remains and those of his crew mates were recovered in 2002 and repatriated.
He is now buried at Girard Cemetery, Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and his name on the Tablets of the Missing is marked with a gold star.
He is also memorialized with his crewmates at Arlington National Cemetery.
On April 16, 1944, Tech. Sgt. Sargent was the flight engineer of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned.
In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and the remains of the Airmen aboard. His remains and those of his crew mates were recovered in 2002 and repatriated.
He is now buried at Girard Cemetery, Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and his name on the Tablets of the Missing is marked with a gold star.
He is also memorialized with his crewmates at Arlington National Cemetery.
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