Sergeant Henry Pullar News Today

But in 2019, excavation work at an airport turned up the plane that carried the remains of six Allied airmen. Using DNA from living relatives, scientists confirmed a body found among the wreckage belonged to the 25-year-old gunner with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. His niece, Pam Compton, received confirmation of the DNA tests proving his identity in late December 2020. She said: “No one in the family knew much about him at all. The remains were discovered nearly 80 years after they went m...

HAMBURG, GERMANY— Stuff.co.nz reports that the remains of Sergeant Henry Pullar of the Royal New Zealand Airforce have been unearthed and identified in Germany. Pullar was rear gunner on a British Short Stirling heavy bomber that was shot down in northwestern Germany in 1942. All six on board were lost when the plane crashed into the ground, tail first. The human remains, along with the tail section of the plane, were found under more than 16 feet of earth during construction work by archaeol...