The Virginia soldier killed during Day Day occupation for more than 80 years

A soldier of Virginia, who lost his life in D-Day, has been accounted for 81 years.

US Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed Omaha beach in Normandia The company with the company, 2nd battalion, the battle group in 116th pedestrian, 29th pedestrian section, as part of the second wave of occupation, POW / MIA accounting agency said on a news broadcast. D-Day or Operation Overlord was a Mass allied occupation in northern France By the air and sea during World War II. Operation recorded the beginning on June 6, 1944 Europe’s release From the Hitler rule.

The company refused the craft of landing in a 7-year-old soldier who observed Thornton wearing coastBut he did not look again after that, DPAA said. A day after the occupation, Thornton’s section looked for him, but not found. He was officially missing in the action. The name was engraved on the missing walls in the Normandy American Cemetery in the Normandy-Sur-Mer in the French-Sur-Mer.

On June 8, 1944, two days after day, the registration of the graves, the staff of the Omaha Beach said that a certain group was established. The residue was celebrated in the Saint-Laurent-Sur-Sur-Mer in the US military cemetery and X-159 as a sacred laurent.

(Identifying the 1945 Determination of the Nutritions of MilitaryDeveloped

In April 2022, Thornton, including two families, X-159 wanted to be liquidated. Families asked the remains to be compared to Thornton and another soldier. The balances were exhumed in September 2023 and Transferred to the DPAA lab. According to DPAA, scientists have dental and anthropological analyzes and mitochondrial DNA analysis.

These efforts finally determined the remains belonged to Thornton. DPA will be born in Washington and DPA in Washington, a rosette in the walls of the missing will be born in the walls of the missing, and he will be buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington