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US finds WWII pilot remains in China after memorial photo resurfaced
Morton Sher was finally buried in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, in December 2025.
For more than eight decades, the remains of US fighter pilot Morton Sher had not been recovered in China, according to SCMP Economy.
The newspaper says investigators were able to locate the crash site in China after a photograph of a memorial to Sher in a Hunan village helped point them to where his plane went down in 1943.
Sher was later buried in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, in December 2025, the outlet added, describing the outcome as a rare example of US-China cooperation that offers closure for families of missing servicemen.
SCMP Economy said the case drew renewed attention following the Xi-Trump summit.