(NEWSER) – Tom McCaslin’s family still hopes he’ll come home, seventy-one years after his B-26 bomber crashed in a French field. “I think everybody in the family would feel better,” says his brother, Joseph McCaslin, one of four surviving siblings who have longed for his return.
They fondly recall the “fun-loving youth who used to sing mock arias” when his sister listened to opera, the Omaha World-Herald reports. They also remember the young man who signed up for the Air Force right after Pearl Harbor and earned a Distinguished Flying Cross for “resolute courage and heroism under fire,” not long before the tail-gunner’s plane went down near Caen, France, in 1944. Now there are signs that his remains have finally emerged. MORE
Another Two Are Home
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel.
From Korea
• SGT Christopher Y. Vars, E Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 11/29/1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 8/13/2015.
From Vietnam
• 1st Lt Stanley G. Johnson, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, USMC, was lost on 12/3/1965 in Vietnam. He was accounted for on 8/5/2015.
You’re no longer missing, my elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that it took so long.
Rest in peace now. You’re home.
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Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA).
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I am hopeful that my ANGLICO teammate, Marine Cpl. Jimmy Worth (MIA/KIA 1972), will return home from Vietnam before I leave this earth.