More than eight decades after his plane mysteriously went down in what was known as the “Chinese theater” in World War II, a Baltimore-born Jewish fighter pilot has received a proper burial, according to the United States Department of Defense.
The remains of Lt. Morton Sher — identified earlier this year — were buried (with dirt from Israel placed over his coffin) in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday, Dec. 14, on what would have been his 105th birthday.
Sher was a member of the famed pilot group known as the “Flying Tigers,” formed to protect China from a Japanese invasion in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941…