The remains of a 22-year-old Greenville fighter pilot killed during World War II have been identified more than 80 years after his aircraft crashed in China.
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Morton Sher was killed during a mission in 1943, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. His body was accounted for on June 11.
His family including his younger sister, Carolyn Fine, expects the Army to return his remains to Greenville in the coming weeks for burial on Dec. 14, which would’ve been Lt. Sher’s 105th birthday. Fine was 11 when Sher died…