during the d-day invasion and thought to be missing in actiont year. tonight, we take a look at their stories and honor their sacrifice. [explosion] bret: nearly 73,000 u.s. troops landed in normandy on june 6th, 1944, more than 2500 were killed or were missing in action. [gunfire. bret: defense prisoner of war missing in action accounting agency has since identified seven of those missing soldiers. three were named in the last year. bret: are there still others yet to be identified. hundreds. the case of those three soldiers they were part of a landing craft on june 6th. bret: army corporal julius wolf. army sergeant john herrick and army hart wick were all part of the 149th engineer battalion on d-day. they boarded the same landing aircraft headed for omaha beach. the soldiers would never make it to battle. the vessel struck a mine as it was hit by artillery fire.
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