Virginia’s soldier was killed during the Day D.

Officials said in a press statement that a soldier from Virginia died on a day that was calculated 81 years after his death.

US Army Sergeant. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, fell on Omaha Beach in Normandy With the company H, the second battalion, 116 fighting team from the pedestrian regiment, the twenty -ninth infantry department as part of the second wave of the invasion, the captive accounting agency/Mia Defense He said in a press release. D-Day, or OverLord, was A huge invasion from northern France in northern France By air and sea during World War II. The operation was, on June 6, 1944, the beginning Editing Europe From Hitler’s rule.

The company was removed from the landing craft at about 7 am, the soldiers’ colleagues of Thornton noticed Going to the beachBut he did not see again after that, DPAA said. The next day of the invasion, the Thornton unit searched for it, but it was not found. It was officially listed as missing at work. His name was engraved on the walls of the missing people in the American cemetery of Normandy in Coleville Sur Mir, France.

On June 8, 1944, two days after D, Graves registration staff registered a set of remains from Omaha Beach who could not get to know him, DPAA said. The remains were entered into the American Military Cemetery Saint Laurent Sur Mir, near the Omaha Beach, and was distinguished by the name X-159 ST. Laurent.

In 1945, she made an attempt to determine unknown remains, but the effort did not succeed, DPAA said. Graves analyst analysts failed to determine the remains again in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, the officers council recommended the command their remains unlimited.

In April 2022, two families, including Thornton, asked X-159 not to disturb. Families requested compared to the remnants of Thornton and another soldier. The remains were extracted in September 2023 and Transfer to DPAA Laboratory. DPAA said that scientists have conducted dental and anthropological analyzes and the DNA analysis of mitochondria.

Those efforts have finally identified the remains of Thornton. DPAA said that a rose will be placed next to his name on the walls of missing persons to indicate that he was calculated.