World War II pilot laid to rest 80 years after going missing in action | CNN

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen A 25-year-old World War II pilot who went missing in action 80 years ago during a mission in southeast Asia was given full honors and laid to rest in Kansas earlier this week.

Second Lt. John E. McLauchlen Jr., of Detroit, was killed during World War II in 1943 while flying during a bombing mission from Panagarh, India, to a railyard near Rangoon, Myanmar – then known as Burma, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.