This undated handout photo provided by the family, shows World War II airman Sgt. Dominick Licari, whose remains were identified nearly 70 years after his plane and two others slammed into a remote, jungle-covered mountainside in the South Pacific. Relatives say they were notified by military officials in July 2013 that bone fragments found at the crash site on the island of Papua-New Guinea were that of the 31-year-old from Frankfort, N.Y. His remains will be returned to his upstate New York hometown for burial. (AP Photo/Family Photo)
This undated handout photo provided by the family, shows World War II airman Sgt. Dominick Licari, whose remains were identified nearly 70 years after his plane and two others slammed into a remote, jungle-covered mountainside in the South Pacific. Relatives say they were notified by military officials in July 2013 that bone fragments found at the crash site on the island of Papua-New Guinea were that of the 31-year-old from Frankfort, N.Y. His remains will be returned to his upstate New York hometown for burial. (AP Photo/Family Photo)
The remains of Sgt. Dominick J. Licari, 31 of Frankfort N.Y., arrives at Albany International Airport Friday afternoon, Aug. 2, 2013, in Colonie, N.Y. Sgt. Licari was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II who vanished on March 13, 1944. He will be buried Tuesday in Frankfort, N.Y. (AP Photo/The Albany Times Union, Michael P. Farrell) TROY, SCHENECTADY; SARATOGA SPRINGS; ALBANY OUT
The remains of Sgt. Dominick J. Licari, 31 of Frankfort N.Y., arrives at Albany International Airport Friday afternoon, Aug. 2, 2013, in Colonie, N.Y. Sgt. Licari was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II who vanished on March 13, 1944. He will be buried Tuesday in Frankfort, N.Y. (AP Photo/The Albany Times Union, Michael P. Farrell) TROY, SCHENECTADY; SARATOGA SPRINGS; ALBANY OUT
The remains of Sgt. Dominick J. Licari, 31 of Frankfort N.Y., arrives at Albany International Airport Friday afternoon, Aug. 2, 2013, in Colonie, N.Y. Sgt. Licari was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II who vanished on March 13, 1944. He will be buried Tuesday in Frankfort, N.Y. (AP Photo/The Albany Times Union, Michael P. Farrell) TROY, SCHENECTADY; SARATOGA SPRINGS; ALBANY OUT
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Many saluted, some cried and a few held signs.
But for 70 miles, hundreds of people paid their respects to a World War II airman who died in combat in the South Pacific almost 70 years ago and was finally returned to his upstate home on Friday.
Funeral director Vincent Iocovozzi, who escorted Sgt. Dominick Licari's remains from the Albany airport to the small town of Frankfort, said there's "only one word that describes this: unbelievable."
"He's a man who has been dead longer than most people have been alive, but he's a hero coming home," Iocovozzi said.
Veterans' groups, businesses and residents along a 10-mile stretch of the Mohawk Valley paid tribute to Licari as his remains made the journey home. Honor guards from Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion chapters were posted along Route 5 as the vehicle procession carrying his casket left the New York State Thruway at Little Falls and traveled to Frankfort, west of Albany.
A commercial flight carrying Licari's casket arrived at the Albany airport, and military pallbearers carried the casket from the plane to the hearse Friday evening, Iocovozzi said. Licari's brother and sister and several nieces and nephews were at the airport to accompany his casket back home, with the Patriot Guard motorcycle riders providing an escort, said the funeral director, a distant relative of the Licari family.
At Melrose Market, the windows facing the street were decorated with American flags and a sign that read: "Thank you and Welcome Home Sgt. Dominick Licari." Organizations and business owners along Route 5 posted signs in Licari's honor.
"We just thought it would be a nice tribute for him for giving his life for our country," grocery store owner Linda LaValla said. "It's good to know that they take the time years later to find our servicemen and bring them home. It's closure for everybody."
Licari was a 31-year-old gunner aboard a two-man Army Air Force A-20 Havoc bomber that crashed into a jungle-covered mountain in Papua New Guinea on March 13, 1944, while returning from a bombing raid on a Japanese airfield. The pilot, 2nd Lt. Valorie Pollard, of Monterey, Calif., also was killed, along with four airmen in two of the mission's other A-20s that slammed into the mountain in bad weather.
Licari, one of nine children, was officially declared dead in 1946. Last month, U.S. military officials notified his two surviving siblings that his remains and those of Pollard were found and identified. Licari's funeral and burial with full military honors are set for Tuesday in Frankfort.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed lowering flags on state government buildings to half-staff on Tuesday to honor Licari.
Pollard's burial arrangements are pending, a Pentagon official said.
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