WWII Pilot Missing For Almost 75 Years Has Remains Identified, Returned To Ohio

(CNN) — Seventy-five years after a World War II pilot’s plane went down in the Mediterranean, his remains have finally been returned home to Ohio for burial.
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. James R. Lord went missing on August 10, 1944, after his plane crashed into the sea near Corsica. Lord was only 20 at the time and was engaging enemy gunfire in the Savona region of northwest Italy, according to a military news release.
Lord was presumed dead and his name was added to the Tablets of the M