WWII Airman's Remains Identified in France After 80 Years
The remains of U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall, who went missing in 1944 after his plane was shot down over France during World War II, have been found and identified almost 80 years later. Hall's remains were recovered and buried in a cemetery in Poix-de-Picardie, but couldn't be identified at the time. In 2018, historians discovered that one of two burials at the Normandy American Cemetery could contain Hall's remains, which were confirmed through anthropological analysis and DNA sequencing. Hall's name will now be marked as accounted for, and he is set to be buried in his hometown of Leesburg, Florida.