Serial Number 42-40475 For 65 years, Brooklyn-raised Charles Schechner thought his big brother Irving was lying in a watery World War II grave somewhere in the Pacific. And then the Washington men came to his Minneapolis home last year. Army 2nd Lt. Schechner's bones had been found amid the debris of his B-24D Liberator plane on a Papua, New Guinea, mountainside, they explained. B-24D-60-CO "The Swan" Serial Number 42-40475 Brooklyn hero from WWII is found at last Remains of 11 World War II airmen missing for years identified Remains of 11 World War II airmen missing for years identified