After decades of unanswered questions, a World War II soldier has finally returned home. Second Lt. Milton L. Hymes Jr., who went missing in 1944, was laid to rest this morning at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
Hymes served as a navigator on a B-24 bomber during a mission to Germany when his aircraft collided with another plane. Of the 20 men aboard, only five managed to escape. Hymes was among those who went missing, and his mother and sisters died before Hymes’ body was found. They never knew what happened to their brother and son.