WWII pilot missing since '44 buried
It's a day Annie Ruth Owen thought would never come; the day she'd
bury her first husband.
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Her husband, Lt. Woodie McVay, has been listed as missing in action since 1944. The 26 year old Navy fighter pilot was shot down over the Pacific during World War II.
"He gave his life willingly. He's a hero, in my book and a lot of people's," said Owen.
Six decades passed before Lt. McVay's family, many of whom he never laid eyes on, learned what happened to the young man considered among the greatest generation. Lt. McVay was buried in Saipan at a Catholic cemetary - his grave marked unknown for years.