Thursday, February 27, 2014

Family gets belongings found with remains of American WWII soldier

The remains of a Kentucky soldier who disappeared during World War II on the Pacific’s Northern Mariana Islands have finally been returned to his family after 70 years.
The belongings, which include Private First Class William T. Carneal's dog tags, belt buckle, poncho and a 1939 class ring were recovered on the Japanese island of Saipan, where Carneal was killed in July 1944, The Paducah Sun reported. 
Full story here.