Solving MIA case from World War II creates family tie

She had heard the stories, knew that the Germans had shot down her grandfather’s B-26C Marauder two days before Christmas 1944. She knew that Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William O. Pile, a former cabdriver from Circleville, was among the tens of thousands of men from World War II whose names were written on the rolls of the missing and unaccounted for. But that’s about as far as Elizabeth Dorstewitz’s family history lesson had gotten until the day the caller ID on her phone lit up