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Thanks to committed historians and scientists, through DNA analysis, a local veteran killed in World War II was finally laid to rest on Sunday.

In January 1944, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall served as a gunner in the 66th Bombardment Squadron as World War II still raged across Europe.

The remains of an American airman who was listed as unaccounted for after his plane was shot down over France during World War II have been found and identified...

The remains of an American airman who was listed as unaccounted for after his plane was shot down over France during World War II have been found and identified...

The remains of an American airman who was listed as unaccounted for after his plane was shot down over France during World War II have been found and identified...

Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall was identified in July by scientists who used anthropological and DNA analysis, military officials said.

A Florida airman has been accounted for nearly 80 years after he died fighting against German forces during World War II, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday.

Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall, of Leesburg, Florida, was 21 when the heavy bomber he was flying in was shot down over France during World War II.

Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall, 21, was the left waist gunner on a B-24D Liberator called "Queen Marlene" when it was attacked by German air forces.

Franklin P Hall, 21 at the time he died, was killed by Luftwaffe in 1944 and body had never been located or identified