Fort Thomas airman killed in World War II coming home after 80 years

Local serviceman escorts World War II veteran to final resting place

Jackson native Timothy Thurman recently had the honor of escorting fellow Navy admin officer John Connolly of Savannah to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.’s, Arlington National Cemetery, 83 years after his death in World War II.

San Jose family honors remains of WWII veteran returned home, identified through DNA after 80 years

"They had forensics, they had almost a complete skeleton of [Lieutenant Robert McCollum] in his plane with his gun, his bones were still in his boots under the ocean off the coast of Denmark."

Fort Thomas airman killed in World War II coming home after 80 years

The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Joe A. De Jarnette, a Fort Thomas native killed during World War II, will be interred Saturday, April 26, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Erlanger, Kentucky.Graveside services will be conducted by Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home in Bellevue, Kentucky.De Jarnette, 24, was assigned to the 732nd Bombardment Squadron, 453rd Bombardment Group, 2nd Combat Bomb Wing, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Forc…

Beshear orders flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of WWII KY Army pilot who was recently identified

Governor Andy Beshear has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on Saturday in honor of a Kentucky World War II Army pilot whose remains were identified last summer.The order is in honor of U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Joe A. De Jarnette from Fort Thomas. He was a member of the "732nd Bombardment Squadron, 453rd Bombardment Group, 2nd Combat Bomb Wing, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force, in the European Theater," a release from the governor's of…

Remains of 3 U.S. airmen killed in WWII identified 82 years after their bomber crashed

The three men were part of a crew carrying out a low-altitude bombing raid in Burma in August 1943.

Remains of WWII Airman welcomed home, will be buried in San Jose

In 2019, Danish divers found the WWII-era wreckage and recovered his remains.