A national organization with Bend leadership recovered a World War II veteran’s remains after more than 80 years at sea
On Sept. 12, 1944, the combined United States Pacific Fleet and Third Fleet started bombarding the Imperial Japanese Army on the tiny island of Peleliu, one of the 300 islands that make up the Republic of Palau about 1,000 miles east of the Philippines. U.S. Navy Aviation Ordinanceman First Class Anthony Di Petta, 24, was among those bombers, targeting antiaircraft weapons and transporter ships in a Grumen Avenger bomber…
