A Defense Department agency has identified the remains of a World War II airman from Charlotte 81 years after he went missing in action. The announcement was made on Friday, which happened to ...

Cpl. Melvin Leslie Huff, a 19-year-old WWII airman from Iowa, was killed in action in 1945 and recently identified. Huff went missing after his bomber crashed in Papua New Guinea during an attack.

A Space Force guardian escorted the remains of her great-great-uncle Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord, a U.S. Army Air Forces gunner killed in action during World War II nearly 80 years after he was ...

On June 5, 2024, The P.O.W and M.I.A accounting agency announced they finally identified his remains 80 years later. Friday June 6, 2025, marked 81 years since D-Day, which was the first day of ...

Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945, have been identified through new DNA technology.

A U.S. Army airman from Iowa Falls killed during World War II will soon be brought back to his hometown.Cpl. Melvin Huff was reported missing in January 1945 after friendly forces lost contact ...

The Stunning Search for the Remains of Fallen WWII Airmen ... Jay was the last service member to be identified and brought home. And I stood in my grandmother’s shoes when I did attend the service.