Spring burial slated for US soldier in WWII after analysis establishes identity

A New Mexico soldier killed 79 years ago in a German forest during World War II will be buried in his hometown this spring after a multiyear effort to identify his remains, the Defense Department said.

Army Pvt. Homer J. Mitchell, who was 20 when he died, was successfully accounted for in July, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a Dec. 18 statement.