An army soldier who died from Virginia has been killed for 81 years, officials said in a press release.
US Army Sergeant. 34-year-old Ivor D. Thornton logs in Omaha Beach in Normandy The National Defense Pow/MIA Accounting Agency said in a press release that it was the H Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 29th Infantry Division as part of the Second Invasion Division. D-day or overlord is A large number of allies invaded France Air and ocean during World War II. The action of June 6, 1944 marked the European Liberation From Hitler’s rule.
The company came down from their landing ship around 7 a.m. On the shorebut I have never seen him again. The day after the invasion, Thornton’s unit searched for him, but found no one. He was officially listed as missing in operation. His name is engraved on the missing wall of the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-Sur-Mer, France.
National Defense Prisoners/MIA Accounting Agency
The DPAA said that on June 8, 1944, two days after D-D, Graves registered personnel recovered a group of remains from their unidentified Omaha Beach. The remains were buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery, St. Loren Sell-Mer, near Omaha Beach, and marked X-159 St. Laurent.
In 1945, the DPAA said, attempts to identify unknown remains were unsuccessful. Analysts at the U.S. Grave Registration Command failed to re-identify the remains in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, the command’s official committee recommended that the remains be declared unidentified.
In April 2022, two families, including Thornton’s, requested that the X-159 be taken apart. The family asked for a comparison of the remains to Thornton and another soldier. The remains were excavated in September 2023 Transfer to DPAA Laboratory. The DPAA said the scientists conducted dental and anthropological analysis and mitochondrial DNA analysis.
These efforts ultimately determined that the body belonged to Thornton. DPAA said a rose knot will be placed next to his name
