The U.S. military has found the remains of a World War II pilot who was last seen in a dogfight over Germany almost 75 years ago, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency confirmed this month that bone material and other evidence found in a farm field in northern Germany belonged to the 24-year-old airman from Harrisonburg, Virginia. Until this month, Shank was among more than 70,000 American service members from World War II who remain unaccounted for. After the war, in the late 1940s, Shank was among missing personnel that the U.S. military set out to find in Germany. The Americans had the coordinates for where Shank's plane was last seen.

Source: ABC News March 08, 2018 23:37 UTC