Just months before the end of World War II, Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Lynn W. Hadfield was piloting a bomber plane from France to Germany when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed somewhere near the German city of Dulmen.
Crews scoured the landscape for the Utahn and two other men in the plane, but found nothing conclusive. That is, until 2016, when a German researcher found evidence of a crash site in Hülsten-Reken, about 10 miles away, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
Tuesday, his remains will arrive in Utah.