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Press Release | May 23, 2025

Soldier Accounted For From WWII (Wyatt, D.)

WASHINGTON  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Daniel Wyatt, 39, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 7, 2025.

In the summer of 1944, Wyatt was assigned to Company E, 364th Engineer General Service Regiment, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On July 7, he was one of eight service members killed in the Crisbecq Battery complex near Saint-Marcouf in Normandy, France, by an explosion that partially caved in the concrete roof of a captured enemy bunker that they were clearing. 

This is an initial release. The complete accounting of Wyatt's case will be published once the family receives their full briefing.

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