Army Cpl. Julius G. Wolfe, killed on D-Day off the coast of France, will be laid to rest April 5, 2024, in his hometown of Liberal, Mo. (POW/MIA Accounting Agency)

Army Cpl. Julius G. Wolfe, killed on D-Day off the coast of France, will be laid to rest April 5 in his hometown of Liberal, Mo.

Wolfe was assigned to Company B, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion. On June 6, 1944, the Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 92 struck an underwater mine and burst into flames as it was steered toward Omaha Beach, France, according to a news release from the POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Wolfe was 20 years old.

He will receive a burial with full military honors. Greenlawn Funeral Home North, Springfield, Mo., will perform graveside services preceding the interment.

Wolfe was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Aug. 21, 2023, after his remains were exhumed for laboratory analysis from Normandy American Cemetery, Normandy, France, in 2021.

As of May 2023, more than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the Gulf Wars/other conflicts. Out of the total, approximately 75% of the losses are located in the Indo-Pacific region, and over 41,000 of the missing are presumed lost at sea (such as ship losses and known aircraft water losses).