Monday, May 29, 2023
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If you are in the area of Metuchen. The annual Memorial Day parade in Metuchen will be held at 830am on Monday. The parade will end at memorial park on route 27. At the end of the parade the remains of Sargent Michael Uhrin will lie in state for 3 hours and then his remains will be buried in Hillside Cemetary Sargent Ubrin was shot down during an air raid in World War II. his remains were identified thru DNA in December of 2022
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Dec. 13, 2022
METUCHEN, N.J. — The remains of an Army Air Force sergeant from New Jersey who died during World War II have been positively identified, Defense Department officials announced Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Michael Uhrin, 21, of Metuchen, was assigned to the 369th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, 40th Combat Wing, 8th Air Force in the European Theater, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA.
On Oct. 14, 1943, Uhrin was the radio operator of a B-17F Flying Fortress bomber that was flying a mission to Schweinfurt, Germany, when it was shot down by enemy fighters near Rommelhausen and Langenbergheim, Hessen, Germany. The plane was among 60 lost during the mission. Surviving crew members said Uhrin was killed before the aircraft crashed and none of them saw him bail out.
His death was confirmed shortly after the crash, but there was no record of his burial location.
Dec. 13, 2022
METUCHEN, N.J. — The remains of an Army Air Force sergeant from New Jersey who died during World War II have been positively identified, Defense Department officials announced Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Michael Uhrin, 21, of Metuchen, was assigned to the 369th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, 40th Combat Wing, 8th Air Force in the European Theater, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA.
On Oct. 14, 1943, Uhrin was the radio operator of a B-17F Flying Fortress bomber that was flying a mission to Schweinfurt, Germany, when it was shot down by enemy fighters near Rommelhausen and Langenbergheim, Hessen, Germany. The plane was among 60 lost during the mission. Surviving crew members said Uhrin was killed before the aircraft crashed and none of them saw him bail out.
His death was confirmed shortly after the crash, but there was no record of his burial location.
When I was a kid, some people still called Memorial Day "Decoration Day." That's what it was originally -- the day, on which the graves of the Union dead from the Civil War were decorated with flowers, wreaths and flags.
