Homer Spence is now home.The Manteca High graduate and U.S. Army Air Corps P-38 fighter pilot crashed during World War II in the Italian Alps in 1944.His remains were recently recovered and identified by the military.1st Lt. Homer Spence will be laid to rest with full military honors at Park View Cemetery at 10 a.m. Saturday. Manteca veterans are hoping the public will turn out to offer their respect and to show the family that Spence’s sacrifice was appreciated by those who benefitted from the efforts of men and women like him that fought World War II. The cemetery is on French Camp Road north of Manteca less than half a mile west of Highway 99.Spence also spent two years at Modesto Junior College before joining the Air Corps. He was assigned to the 96th Fighter Squadron, of the 82nd Fighter Group.Spence, 22 at the time, was flying as a spotter for a bomber squadron and was returning to his base when a wingman reported seeing him slump over his controls flying over Austria and then fall out of formation crashing in a heavily wooded area of Italy.There was conjecture that he was suffering from a lack of oxygen or from air sickness being one of two P-38 Lightning planes that went down at the same time on July 20 of 1944.