
Virginia soldier killed during D-Day invasion accounted for more than 80 years later
A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, 29th Infantry Division as part of the second…