A Virginia soldier who died on the day has been counted for 81 years after being killed, according to officials in a statement.
SGT of the United States Army. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed Beach Omaha in Normandy With the company H, 2nd Battalion, 116th Combining Team of the Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division as part of the second wave of the invasion, the Pow/Mia Defense Accounting Agency. said in a statement. D-Day, or Operation Overlord, was a Allied Mass Invasion of Northern France by air and sea during World War II. The operation, on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the Liberation of Europe of Hitler’s rule.
The company disembarked from its disembarkation boats at 7am. Wing on the groundBut he did not see himself again after that, said Dpaa. The day after the invasion, Thornton’s unit sought him, but he was not found. It was officially listed as missing. Its name was recorded on the walls of the missing in the US Cemetery of Normandy of Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
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On June 8, 1944, two days after D, the Graves Registration staff recovered a set of remains of Omaha beach that they could not identify, said the Dpaa. The remains were intervened in the United States Military Cemetery Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, near Omaha beach, and marked as X-159 St. Laurent.
In 1945, the unknown remains were attempted, but the effort was not successful, the Dpaa said. Analysts with American Register Command did not identify the remains again in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, a council of command officers recommended that the remains be declared unidentifiable.
In April 2022, two families, including Thornton, requested that the X-159 be selfless. Families requested that the remains be compared with those of Thornton and another soldier. The remains were exhumed in September 2023 and transferred to the dpaa laboratory. Scientists performed dental and anthropological analysis and analysis of mitochondrial DNA, said the Dpaa.
These efforts finally identified the remains as belonging to Thornton. A rosette will be placed next to its name on the walls of the missing to indicate that it has been counted, said the Dpaa, and will be buried in the National Cemetery of Arlington in Washington, DC
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