Long-Missing Pilot Finally to Be Laid to Rest

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Long-Missing Pilot Finally to Be Laid to Rest

The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Jan 18, 2009 9:32:00 EST

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A World War II veteran who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean 65 years ago will be laid to rest Sunday in his native South Carolina.

Maj. Marion Ryan McCown Jr. will be buried after a memorial service at the Unitarian Church in Charleston.

The Post & Courier of Charleston reported Saturday that the Marines Corps is giving McCown a full military burial, including a fly over by F/A-18 Hornets.

“I’m expecting a full church,” Mike McDaniel, funeral director at Stuhr’s West Ashley funeral home, said. “This is a hero coming home.”

McCown was a Marine aviator stationed in the Pacific during the war. He had been missing since Jan. 20, 1944, when he volunteered to escort a bombing mission in his Corsair F4U.

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