Fox news is reporting that a New York soldier who was reported missing in the Pacific theater of World War II 70 years ago will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery after his remains were identified using DNA tests.
Army Pfc. Bernard Gavrin, of Brooklyn, was reported missing on July 7, 1944 while fighting on Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. His regiment had come under attack from the Japanese and suffered many casualties.
Gavrin was declared dead the following year, and his remains were deemed unrecoverable in 1948. However, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that excavations by a Japanese non-profit group last August had uncovered Gavrin's dog tags, as well as graves containing the remains of several American troops. Continue to read the rest of the article here.
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