On June 28, 2007, the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO, now DPAA) identified the remains of Second Lieutenant John F. Lubben, missing from World War II.



Second Lieutenant John F. Lubben entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Wisconsin and served in the 644th Bombardment Squadron, 410 Bombardment Group (Light). On December 12, 1944, he was the pilot of an A-20J Havoc (serial number 43-21720) that took off from Coullomiers, France, for a bombing mission against enemy positions in Wollseifen, Germany. The Havoc was last seen in a snowstorm, out of control and in a steep dive near Schleiden, approximately thirty-three miles southwest of Cologne, Germany. In 1975, a German company clearing unexploded ordnance from the war found a gravesite northeast of Simmerath. The remains of the three crew members from this Havoc were recovered but were unable to be identified and were buried as unknowns in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Neupré, Belgium. In 2003, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified that a group of German Citizens had information relating to the missing crew of the Havoc. This information prompted the disinterment of the remains recovered from the crash site in 1975. These remains were brought to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory where dental records, forensic identification tools, and circumstantial evidence helped scientists from JPAC to identify 2LT Lubben.



Second Lieutenant Lubben is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Lorraine American Cemetery in Saint-Avold, France.