The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office has identified nine airmen missing in action from World War II. They are: 2nd Lt. Hugh L. Johnson Jr. of Montgomery, Ala.; 2nd Lt. Byron L. Stenen of Northridge, Calif.; 2nd Lt. John F. Green of Watertown, N.Y.; 2nd Lt. John M. Meisner of Pembroke, Mass.; SSgt. Walter Knudsen of Sioux City, Iowa; Cpl. John A. DeCarlo of Newark, N.J.; Cpl. Robert E. Raney of Monon, Ind.; Cpl. William G. Mohr of Mt. Wolf, Pa.; and Cpl. Michael J. Pushkar of Mahanoy City, Pa. They took off on the morning of Oct. 9, 1944, in their B-24D Liberator to fly a training mission from New Guinea. The aircraft was never seen again, and officials speculated the crew ran into bad weather. In 2002, US officials learned that villagers in Morobe Province, New Guinea, had found two dog tags and launched an investigation.
Dick Cheney’s Legacy with the Air Force
Nov. 6, 2025
Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
