NORFOLK, Va. – Captain Thomas Edwin Scheurich, a Vietnam War pilot missing in action for 57 years, was repatriated to Norfolk on Friday.
His remains were identified earlier this year at the crash site of his plane, which vanished on March 1, 1968, after completing a bombing mission. His children, Tom Jr. of Virginia Beach and Marianne of Richmond, attended the homecoming, with burial set for Nov. 14 at Arlington National Cemetery.
Scheurich was assigned to Attack Squadron 35, Air Wing 9. He chartered a plane from Naval Station Oceana in December 1967 and deployed aboard the USS Enterprise. He sent valentines to his family in Virginia Beach just two weeks before his disappearance…