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D-Day fallen identified, interred at Omaha National Cemetery

The service members had been unidentified for decades. Now, we know their names and they've been laid to rest. Some family members traveled from states away for the ceremony.
D-Day fallen identified, interred at Omaha National Cemetery
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In August of 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA, accounted for the group of Service members killed on Omaha Beach in Normandy: June 6, 1944.

Several United States Service members who died during the D-Day landings of World War II had gone unidentified for decades - buried as Unknowns at the Normandy American Cemetery.

Through the work of the DPAA, today, we know the names of 16 of the 25 service members.

3 News Now Photojournalist Kevin Rempe attended the ceremony in which the group, with family close at hand, was interred with full honors at Omaha National Cemetery.

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