He was spared from combat missions when Japan surrendered in September 1945, but he was day and night carrier qualified and ...
A Marine Raider from Cincinnati, missing since a WWII firefight in 1943, was recently identified through DNA analysis.
The Devastator bomber became a footnote in World War II history, and no vestige of the plane is found in any museum or collection anywhere in the world.
Pfc. Norton Retzsch, a Marine Raider from Cincinnati, went missing during a 1943 battle in the Solomon Islands. DPAA used his great-niece's DNA to finally bring him home.