The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John E. McLauchlen Jr., who was killed during World War II, will be interred July 8 at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

McLauchlen, a native of Detroit, was a member of the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group during World War II. He went missing in action Dec. 1, 1943, at age 25, after the B-24J Liberator bomber he was piloting during a bombing mission from Panagarh, India, to the Insein Railroad Yard north of Rangoon, Burma, was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire.

McLauchlen was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Jan. 25, 2024, after his remains were exhumed from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, also known as the Punchbowl, for laboratory analysis and identification.

McLauchlen’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines, along with the others missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

McLauchlen will be buried with full military honors, according to a news release from U.S. Army Human Resources Command.