Staff Sergeant Elbert Pollard was aboard a B-36 Bomber carrying an atomic bomb when it went down off British Columbia. His remains were found in 1952 but weren't identified until last year.
Pollard's daughter, Betty Wheeler, said the burial lifts a sadness she has always associated with memories of her father.
"I have one very distinct memory of being in the ocean with him," she said. "He was probably just holding me and rocking me in the water," she said.
A Bomber did a fly-over during Friday's funeral. Pollard flew 13 missions during World War II and he was a German prisoner of war for 13 months.
