Virginia soldier killed during D-Day invasion accounted for more than 80 years later

Officials said in a press release that a Virginia soldier died in the D-Day was considered five years after killing.

US Army Sergeant. Ivor de Thorton, 34, landed Omaha Beach As part of the second wave of the attack, the company H, 2nd Battalion, the 66th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Defense Pao/MIA Accounting Agency said in a press release with the 25th Infantry Department. D-Day, or overlord of the operation, was a Northern France’s huge ally By the wind and the sea during World War II. Operations, June 6, 1944, marked its lap Europe From Hitler’s rules.

The company observed Thorton of fellow soldiers around 7am from their landing craft Wedding on the shoreHowever, he was no longer seen after that, DPAA said. The day after the attack, Thorton’s unit searched him, but he was not found. He was officially listed as missing in action. His name was engraved on the missing walls of the Normandy American cemetery in France, France.

Dadda says Grav Registration workers recovered a remnant from Omaha Beach on June 8, 1944, two days after D-Day, which they were unable to detect, DPAA said. These remains were intervened in the Saint-Larator-Sur-Merge, the US military cemetery near Omaha Beach and identified as the X-159 St Laurent.

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April 2022, two families, including Thorton, requested the X -159 to be separated. The families asked that this remains should be compared to Thorton and another soldier. The remains were encouraged in September 2023 and DPAA transferred to the laboratoryThe Scientists conducted dental and ethnographic analysis and mitochondrial DNA analysis, DPAA said.

These attempts finally identified the remains as Thorton belonged to. DPAA says a roset will be placed next to his name to indicate that he has been accountable for him, and he will be buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC