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Remains of Marine killed in World War II to be buried in KY

Associated Press

This June 1, 2019 photo provided by History Flight shows graves of U.S. servicemen under the water table in Tarawa, Kiribati. A nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. (Eric Albertson/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/History Flight via AP)

Graves of US WWII servicemen unearthed on Pacific island

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

Remains of Marine killed in WWII heading home to Oregon

By CAPI LYNN - Associated Press

This Jan. 22, 2017 photo provided by the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific shows cemetery caretaker Kenneth Miner in Honolulu preparing the casket of an unknown serviceman killed in the Battle of Tarawa for disinterment. Military and Veterans Affairs officials are digging up the remains of dozens of unidentified Marines and sailors killed on a remote atoll in the Pacific during one of World War II's bloodiest battles in an attempt to identify them. (Gene Maestas/National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific via AP)

Military digging up WWII battle remains from Hawaii cemetery

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

More than 70 years after death, Marine’s remains return home

By RYAN BROWN - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND USE JUNE 4, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 28, 2016 photo, Marines from the Combat Logistics Battalion 453 escort Elmer Mathies Jr. from First United Methodist Church of Hereford to West Park Cemetery in Hereford, Texas. For years, for decades, the young Marine from Hereford whom his buddies called “Rabbit” was called something else, something that put a silent knot in the stomachs of his family and those he fought with on foreign soil. The War Department tersely described Mathies Jr. as “unrecoverable.” (Sean Steffen/The Amarillo Globe News via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Young Marine, missing since World War II, returned home

By JON MARK BEILUE - Associated Press