On July 25, 2007, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary April H. Foley and Defense Attaché Colonel Kevin McGrath traveled to Nemesvita near Lake Balaton to visit a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavation site for a B-24H "Liberator" that crashed in a bombing mission to Austria during World War II near Lake Balaton on June 30, 1944. There was one unaccounted-for American, Ssgt Martin Troy, who went down with the plane. Ambassador Foley met with the team of 8 Americans, led by USMC Capt. George Murphy and JPAC archeologist Dr.Bradley Sturm, as well as with their team from the Hungarian Defense Ministry and the local municipality. (Embassy photos)
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