The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Pfc. Gerald W. Kight, 23, of White Salmon, Wash., will be buried May 19, in his hometown. In September 1944, Kight and the 82nd Division’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were dropped in the vicinity of Nijmegen, Netherlands, as part of the allied invasion codenamed “Market Garden.” Kight was manning a machine gun position near the town of Groesbeek, when he was overrun by German Forces. On Sept. 12, 2011, the Royal Netherlands Army’s Recovery and Identification Unit recovered human remains from a wartime foxhole, in a corn field northeast of Groesbeek. Along with the remains were military uniform fragments, and three military identification tags, which bear the name and home address of Kight and his mother. http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/news/news_releases/2012/release_kight.pdf http://www.csupomona.edu/~rosenkrantz/paratroop/heuvelhof.htm http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonatwar/2012/05/gerald_mike_kight_approaches_h.html The second link has a picture of the area where PFC Kight and another soldier were believed to be lost near Groesbeek.
