Remains Of Pittsburgh Army Pilot Killed In World War 2 Identified

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The remains of a B-25 bomber pilot from Pittsburgh killed during World War II have been accounted for.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday today that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Gilbert H. Myers were accounted for in August.

In July 1943, Myers was a co-pilot in a plane that was hit by anti-aircraft fire while conducting a bombing mission over Sicily. Myers’s remains were not recovered, and he was subsequently declared missing in action.

In 1944, the American Graves Registration Service researchers discovered that Italian residents of Sciacca, found a body belonging to the B-25 pilot at a crash site. Service investigators at the time indicated that they found some remains of the wreckage, but did not indicate any additional losses.

In 2021 and 2022, DPAA and partner organization personnel from the Cranfield University Recovery and Identification of Conflict Team returned to Sciacca. There they were able to recover additional plane wreckage pieces, as well as human remains from the crash site.

Those remains were identified as belonging to Myers. He will be buried next month in St. Petersburg, FL.