Westfield family buries airman who went missing during World War II

? A Westfield family has closure now that it has laid to rest a relative who disappeared in 1944 in Asia during World War II. Douglas Wight was among four crew members whose plane went missing on a supply

News 12 Staff

May 12, 2006, 10:50 PM

Updated 6,739 days ago

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? A Westfield family has closure now that it has laid to rest a relative who disappeared in 1944 in Asia during World War II.
Douglas Wight was among four crew members whose plane went missing on a supply mission. It was not discovered until 2001 in Tibet. Officials spent several years identifying the remains. Wight's family and the family of his fellow crew members recently buried the airmen at Arlington National Cemetery.
Lois Wight says her late husband Thomas sometimes cried on his brother Douglas? birthday. Wight says now the family has a reason to celebrate.