LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Authorities say burial plans have been changed for the remains of a World War II soldier from Lincoln.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Wednesday in a news release that the burial originally scheduled Nov. 14 for U.S. Army Sgt. Eugene McBride has been changed to Nov. 12. He’d been listed as accounted for on Sept. 10 - no longer listed as missing in action.
The agency says the 20-year-old McBride was killed by an artillery shell blast on Jan. 30, 1945, near Huppenbroich, Germany. He was a member of the 311th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division.
Positive identification could not be made at the time.
The agency says the remains were removed from the Rhone American Cemetery in France in June 2017, analyzed and positively identified.
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