The remains of a World War II U.S. pilot whose aircraft was shot down in 1944 have been identified after a decadeslong effort to bring the service member home.
Eugene Shauvin, 25, from Spokane, Washington, was accounted for on March 2 after previous attempts to locate his remains at the crash site in Belgium were unsuccessful, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Tuesday.
Efforts to locate Shauvin's remains were renewed by his daughter, Linda, who was only 3 years old when her father was deployed, after she contacted the Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii in 1999 to say she had evidence that her father's remains were at the crash site.
