A female singer’s live rendition of “Let It Be,” by The Beatles washed over a crowd of mourners inside a Dalton church as they followed the draped casket of Jake Galliher, the 24-year-old U.S. airman from Massachusetts killed in a November crash in Japan.
The services for the 24-year-old U.S. Air Force member from Pittsfield, Mass., who died when his aircraft went down near Japan in November will begin on Tuesday afternoon.
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Six honor guard members Friday carried the remains of Air Force Staff Sergeant Jacob “Jake” Galliher in a casket draped with the American flag off a C-17 cargo plane at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee where members of his family and public officials, including Governor Maura Healey and US Representative Richard Neal, waited.
Jacob "Jake" Galliher was among eight service members who died last month when an Osprey aircraft crashed during a training mission off southwestern Japan.