Correction: Fighter Pilot-Remains Identified story

Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Army Air Forces pilot from Ohio who died when his plane was shot down over Germany during World War II, the Defense Department announced Thursday. On May 29, 1944, 1st Lt. Carl Nesbitt was the pilot of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber during a huge bombing mission over Leipzig, Germany, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Six of the 10 crew members were able to escape the plane before it crashed near Horst, while Nesbitt and the rest were killed.