For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred.
On Tuesday, the soldier would have his identity recovered – and be reunited with his twin brother in Normandy, where the two Navy men died together when their ship shattered on an underwater mine while trying to reach the blood-soaked D-Day beaches.
They will be the 45th pair of brothers at the cemetery, three of them memorialized on the Walls of the Missing.
Read more about the brothers’ service in World War II and their posthumous reunion here.
