Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Army Air Force pilot from Ohio who died when his plane was shot down over Germany during World War II.
Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Army Air Force pilot from Ohio who died when his plane was shot down over Germany during World War II, the Defense Department announced Thursday.
. German fighters attacked the bomber's formation roughly 28 miles northeast of Leipzig, and the plane was shot down.Six of the 10 crew members were able to escape the plane before it crashed near Horst, while Nesbitt and the rest were killed. Their bodies were believed to have been buried in a local cemetery and, after the war ended, there was no evidence of Nesbitt being a prisoner of war or having survived.
The American Graves Registration Command, which worked to recover fallen service members in Europe after the war, found the remains of a crew member buried in a cemetery in Horst during a search in September 1946. But after 1950, worsening diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which then controlled that part of Germany, prevented the AGRC from investigating further, and Nesbitt was declared nonrecoverable on April 21, 1953.
Scientists used dental and anthropological analysis, mitochondrial DNA analysis and circumstantial and material evidence to identify Nesbitt's remains. He will be buried on May 15 in Annville, Pennsylvania.
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