FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The remains of a Kentucky soldier who died in Germany during World War II have been identified and will be returned home.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Monday that Army Pfc. Jacob W. Givens was officially accounted for in June. Givens was a native of Mount Sterling and was 30 when he died.
A release from Gov. Matt Bevin’s office says Givens was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, which was fighting in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest in October 1944.
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Officials with the accounting agency analyzed a set of remains found by a woodcutter in 1947. The agency used dental, anthropological and DNA analysis to identify Givens.
Givens will be buried Nov. 9 in Prestonsburg.
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