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.
Eight service members' bodies were located just a few days after the crash by local residents. By 1951, the U.S. military had identified and accounted for everyone involved in the crash except for Shauvin, who was declared"non-recoverable" on Oct. 29, the agency said. It took three years for officials to complete a"complex series of negotiations with host-nation authorities, to gain access, permits, and mitigate environmental challenges at the site," which was further delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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