66 years later, B-17 crewman's remains finally going home to Iowa

Staff Sgt. Marvin Steinford was 22 years old when he climbed into the nose of a B-17 "Flying Fortress" in Amendola, Italy, and left on a mission bound for Berlin during World War II.

His job description: togglier -- an enlisted man doing a job similar to a bombardier's, but less complicated.

The plane was hit by Nazi antiaircraft fire and he bailed out over Hungary. That was March 24, 1945, less than two months before Germany's surrender ended the war in Europe. "Steiney" as he was known, was never seen again. He left behind his wife, Rosella, and young daughter Carol Ann.

But now, his remains have been found, positively identified and, in less than two weeks, will be reburied near his hometown of Keystone, Iowa.

The effort to repatriate Steinford's remains began seven years ago and involved delicate diplomatic and scientific work to prove they were his remains and not those of a Soviet soldier.

In 2004, Hungary was relocating a Soviet WWII memorial from the center of the city of Zirc, in western Hungary, to the outskirts of town. During that work they noticed one coffin that didn't match the other Soviet-style coffins in the memorial. Inside they discovered identification tags with Steinford's name on them....