One family's heartbreak and the search for answers will be the center of a display at the Winters Heritage House Museum for the next few weeks.

1st Lt. William Herr Myers, an Elizabethtown resident, was reported missing in November of 1945. "Imagine being told your son is missing two months after Japan surrendered," said Teresa St. Angelo, director of the museum. "What happened? How did the government inform Edith Myers, Lt. Myers' mother? What efforts were made to find this soldier?"

Winters Heritage House Museum, 47 E. High St., Elizabethtown, will outline the moving and long journey the soldier's family took to find answers to how and where he went missing.

Lt. Myers was Lancaster County's last MIA World War II casualty. He was lost on Nov. 27, 1945, co-piloting a C-47 aircraft. His name tag from his uniform was recovered 69 years later, but it's unknown what happened to it, because the family never received it. Today, almost 80 years later, his remains have never been found.

The museum's display will include photographs of Lt. Myers during his active service, letters he sent to his mother and newspaper and magazine articles about the search efforts of his family. Personal items of Lt. Myers, including his aviator glasses, goggles, wings and more, will also be featured, provided by Lt. Myers' nephew.

"The exhibit will also include general World War II information, shell trench art, World War II service uniforms and a collection of period pieces lent to us by local residents, which includes a Welcome Home banner," St. Angelo stated.

The exhibit will be on display through Friday, Dec. 8. Hours will be Wednesday, Nov. 22, from 2 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 25, from 1 to 4 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 26, from 2 to 4 p.m.; Monday, Nov. 27, from 1 to 4 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, as well as Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 6 and 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Friday, Dec. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, visit http://www.elizabethtownhistory.org.