“Dale is finally coming home,” Linda Elliott, a grandniece of Geddes, told the Grand Island Independent. For more than 70 years, Geddes’s remains were buried on the island of Betio, where he was killed. Dale Geddes was killed in World War II during the Battle of Tarawa. As time passed, it looked as though they might never be found and returned to his family, according to a local newspaper report. The war correspondent Robert Sherrod was with American forces that November and wrote about what he witnessed when the Marines disembarked.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2016 11:05 UTC