Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., 23, went missing on Oct. 29, 1944, during a mission to escort bombers attacking Regensburg, Germany.
, the DPAA says. The agency, which is based in Arlington, Va., seeks to account for service members missing in action from the country’s wars beginning with World War II.
Brewer, the son of a hotel bellman, had graduated from Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., where he had reportedly received an award from a prominent Black fraternity.He had a younger sister named Gladys, who was a teacher at the local segregated Second Ward High School. The family lived in Charlotte’s Brooklyn section, a largely Black neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s.
“He’s coming back now, and I’m happy for him, and I finally finish a mission of mine in life, to bring this pilot home,” she said.
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