WWII Soldier Homer Mitchell Identified After 80 Years

Mitchell's identification is part of a larger effort by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to account for over 81,000 missing service members.

U.S. Army private Homer Mitchell, who died during World War II, has been identified nearly 80 years after his death.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency confirmed the identification, bringing closure to Mitchell's family members.
Mitchell is one of nearly 160 service members accounted for in the last fiscal year as part of a massive, yearslong effort by the federal agency.
More than 37,000 of the 81,000 service members from various conflicts who have yet to be accounted for are considered to be recoverable, mostly from WWII.
Mitchell's family, scattered across New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, will gather in Portales next spring to bury him.