Omaha Police Detective Tom McCaslin has almost no tangible link to his namesake uncle, a B-26 tail gunner who fought in World War II years bef…
About 200 relatives of Nebraska and Iowa service members will be guests of the Honor and Remember Nebraska Chapter at a commemorative dinner, part of a day of public and private events in their honor.
For more than a year now, Detective Tom McCaslin, 46, has been applying his professional skills to the central mystery in his large and prominent Omaha family: the disappearance of his namesake uncle, Army Staff Sgt. Tom McCaslin, in a World War II plane crash in France soon after the Normandy invasion.
In his day job as an Omaha police detective, Tom McCaslin solves mysteries.
Seventy-one years after Tom McCaslin’s B-26 crashed in France, his family would be grateful if he could come home.
