Teeni wwii residue was killed on board the ship that struck an underwater mine.

Military officials said on Tuesday that a 18 -year -old sea was killed on an American destroyer during World War II, who was calculated more than 80 years after his death.

Jerome M. has been appointed. Mawlani, 18 years old, US Navy Reserve, Jerome M. Mawlani, 18, to the destroyer USS Glenon in the summer of 1944, the captive accounting agency/Mia Defense He said in a press release. Glennon participated in D-Day on June 6, 1944. Two days after the invasion, an underwater mine was hit off the coast of France. The ship became besieged and cannot be pulled to safety before it was exposed to a German artillery barn on June 10.

The ship sank after the German Wallers hit it. Mawlani and 24 other sailors were recorded in missing. Mullani was declared inseparable in May 1949, less than five years after the ship sank. His name was registered on the walls of missing people in the Cambridge Cemetery in England. He got the purple heart, According to the publication of the post In late August.

After the end of World War II in 1945, the leadership of the American graves registration began efforts to restore the missing members of the American service who died during the fighting. DPAA said the agency conducted dozens of searches off the coast of France. By 1951, the agency identified the remains of five sailors of USS Glennon.

In 1957, Salvages with Saint -Mary de Mont pulled a cut from USS Glennon to the beach. The pieces are divided into scrap. DPAA said that a local population found human remains in a large portion of the debris of the front of the ship. After that, US officials of the army shrine in Frankfurt, Germany, acquired their remains and eyes as X-9296. The efforts made to determine the remains failed, and it was interfered with the Ardeennes America Cemetery in Belgium in March 1959.

In 2021, DPAA historians began new efforts to calculate the sailors who died on the USS Glennon. In August 2022, the X-9296 remains were extracted from the Belgian cemetery and transferred to DPAA Laboratory. Research including dental and anthropological analysis, as well as mitochondria and Y-Chromosome, have identified the remains as Moliani in March 2025.

Molmani’s obituary said he was one of 10 children. All his brothers died, but he has many daughters of his nephew’s sons and cousins. The obituary said that his funeral will be held in his hometown in Skranton, Pennsylvania. The obituary said that he was to be buried near his parents.

DPAA said that a rose will also be placed next to his name on the walls of missing persons to indicate that he was calculated.

“This will lead to the closure of our family,” the daughter of Mawlani, Mary Luiz Brambilla, I told the stars of the military and the stripes. “It will finally return home.”