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Missing World War II Pilot Located After 8 Decades By Forensic Scientists

Investigators announced in October 2023 that they had located human remains belonging to World War II pilot Gilbert Haldeen Myers. He has now been accounted for through DNA analysis in the US. 

Forensic scientists have located missing World War II pilot Gilbert Haldeen Myers after eight decades through DNA analysis. Myers, a 27-year-old US Army Air Forces (USAAF) 2nd Lieutenant, was a part of a crew of six on board a USA B-25 Mitchell bomber that left Tunisia in North Africa in the summer of July 1943, to attack the Sciacca Aerodrome in Sicily, Italy. Myers, who was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a co-pilot on the bomber, according to Cranfield University.  However, as the
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