WASHINGTON –
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Mack Homer, 20, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 7, 2025.
In the summer of 1944, Homer was assigned to Company E, 364th Engineer General Service Regiment, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On July 7, Homer was killed, along with seven other servicemembers, near Saint-Marcouf in Normandy, France, after an explosion partially caved in the concrete roof of a captured enemy bunker that they were clearing.
This is an initial release. The complete accounting of Homer's case will be published once the family receives their full briefing.
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