Glenn Hodak
Eighty years after being shot down during a World War II mission over Tokyo, the remains of Cambridge Springs native Glenn Hodak were finally returned home. Hodak, a 23-year-old gunner aboard a B-29, was captured and died in a 1945 Tokyo prison firebombing. Initially buried as an “unknown” in the Manila American Cemetery, his remains were identified in 2024 through dental and anthropological analysis. On Friday, a motorcade of Pennsylvania State Police escorted his remains from Pittsburgh to Youngsville, where he will be laid to rest in Spring Creek Township.
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