Missing In Action
Back in North Carolina, Dewey's family was informed by the War Department that the pilot was officially listed as Missing in Action on January 3, 1943. The family made this information public on March 6; the next day, the news was published in the newspaper The Daily News of Greensboro. The date in the article when Dewey went missing, December 11, 1942, is incorrect, since his plane crashed on December 18.