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    Ill. family welcomes home body of long lost soldier killed over Germany during World War II

    by William Lee, Chicago Tribune Oct 22, 2021 3 minutes

    CHICAGO — When a B-17 bomber exploded over Germany 76 years ago killing 20-year-old Sgt. Francis Wiemerslage, it left a hole in his River Grove, Illinois, family that never healed.

    With his body unaccounted for, Wiemerslage’s grieving mother, Vivian, for several years after his disappearance set a place for him at the Thanksgiving dinner table in case her beloved son miraculously came home.

    His kid brother Roland, just 9 when Wiemerslage died in battle, spent much of his

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