WWII Marine Remains Return to North Carolina (wbtv.com)

1st Sgt. Sherman MacDonald's remains arrived at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Nov. 3, ending an eight-decade search for identification. The Marine died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines in 1942 and was buried in a common grave. His nephew Robert MacDonald received the flag-draped casket, with burial planned in Black Mountain.