GLENWOOD, Iowa (KMTV) — Eighty-one years to the day after 2nd Lt. Blaine Wilcox was killed in action over Europe, his remains were finally laid to rest next to his parents in Glenwood.

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Wilcox was a bombardier on a B-17 during World War II when he was shot down over present-day Poland and buried in an unmarked grave.

His niece, Lois Aistrope, is his closest surviving relative and one of only a few family members who knew him. She remembers her uncles playing catch — and she was the ball.

"One time one of them missed and I went out the window," Aistrope said.

Since learning that her uncle's remains were identified by the forensics lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Aistrope said she's been thinki

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