The remains of an American soldier killed in a Nazi war crime during World War II have been returned to the San Francisco Bay Area.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop of Sebastopol was a waist gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress when it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire on Dec. 29, 1944, on a bombing mission to Bingen, Germany, to support the Battle of the Bulge, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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