CUSHING --
After more than 62 years, Charlotte Magdeburg finally is close to burying her husband, whose plane was lost in a bombing mission during World War II.
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Magdeburg recently was informed that her husband, George Archer, was identified in a plane found crashed on a mountain in New Guinea. Archer, of Cushing, and nine others were flying in a B-24 bomber when they got lost in a tropical storm on April 16, 1944.
Archer's identity was confirmed by DNA from his brother. The family wants to bury Archer at the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.
"After all these years, I knew nothing other than the plane was missing,” Magdeburg said. "So it gives me closure that I've never had before. It was just as though he vanished.”
The couple's daughter was 2-months-old when Archer, 24, died. He now has three grandchildren, said Magdeburg, who turns 84 today.
