A sinking of verginia that died in counting D-day has been jammed 81 years later he was killed, officers say in free release.
US Army sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha beach in Normandy with company h, 2 fighed among the figmental infantry, 29th infantry division as a second wave of the agency of the concient pow / mia of accounting said in a picture release. I am D-Day, or Overlord operation, it was a MASSIVING WINNING NOR NORTH by air and sea during World War II. The operation, June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the liberation of Europe from the hitler’s rule.
The company disembaries from their craft at approximately 7 am partner of Thornton observed soldiers beat up on the groundbut not seen back later, the dpaa said. The day after invasion, the Thornton unit sought for him but not found. Was officially listed as missing in action. Firm faller of the American Manter in American Adaperie Normandy in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
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On June,, 1944, for the 1944 after the following days, regional staffere is recovered by the spay of the dpaa said, the Dpaa said. The restarts were interrets of the US military USMIt-sur-merry, near Fea Beach, and marked as X – 159 sterle.
In 1945, an attempt has been made to identify the unknown reems, but effort will not be failed, the dpaa said. Analysts with American Falling Member in 1947. Each years later, in 1949, a plan of officers that I remain impacted impacts.
In April of 2022, two families, including Thornton, asked that X – 159 Being Disinterested. Families asked that the remains will compare those of Thornton and another soldier. The remains were examined in the 2023 September and transferred to DPAA lab. I am Scientists gave dental and anthropological analysis and analysis of the mitocondrial, the dpaa said.
Those efforts finally identify the remains as belonging to Thornton. A rosettes will be placed aside at their walls of the walls that has been counted in National Arleton’s National Streeton Seems in Washington, DC