WWII airman's remains returned after 83 years (hendersonvillelightning.com)

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Charles R. Smith returned home Friday, 83 years after his B-24D Liberator went missing on an Aug. 16, 1943 bombing mission over Foggia, Italy. A U.S. Army honor guard transferred his remains from a Delta Airlines flight to a hearse at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, and he will be buried in Hendersonville on Sunday. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified Smith's remains on May 29 using forensic techniques and family DNA, and he is the second Henderson County WWII MIA identified under a VFW project begun about a year ago.