Long-lost Tuskegee Airman's remains finally identified after 79 years

The remains of 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., a Tuskegee Airman who went missing during World War II, have been identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Brewer's plane crashed in Italy in 1944, but his remains were only recently identified through historical research and a DNA link to a paternal cousin. He is the second Tuskegee Airman missing from WWII to be accounted for. Brewer was among the more than 900 Black pilots trained at the segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, and his identification brings closure to his family after decades of uncertainty.