sigebet World War II Airman’s Remains Identified After 79 Years

The same day that Jenevieve Judd gave birth to her son, John Elliott, in October 1944sigebet, she received a crushing telegram from the U.S. military informing her that her husband had gone missing while serving in World War II.

Mr. Elliott, now 79, said that his mother had told him that she had been so affected by the news of his father’s disappearance that it made labor more difficult, possibly causing Mr. Elliott to spend the first week of his life in an oxygen tank after being born purple.

Over the years, Ms. Judd told her son extremely little about her missing husband, who remained unaccounted for until May of this year. The Defense Department said earlier this month that her husband, Staff Sgt. John A. Tarbert of the Air Force was killed at 24 after his plane was attacked while flying over Germany 80 years ago this Friday.

“I’m a low-key kind of a guy, and the excitement is just beginning to kind of swell up inside me,” Mr. Elliott said in an interview on Monday.

Mr. Elliott, who lives in Schenectady, N.Y., had been circling closer to the truth of what happened to his father since about 2012, when his own son looked online for information, inspiring Mr. Elliott to look in his attic for old, possibly related documents.

They learned that Sergeant Tarbert had been one of more than 300 men who flew from England on Sep. 27, 1944, as part of an operation known as the Kassel Mission. Sergeant Tarbert, of Port Deposit, Md., was in the 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force.

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