The remains of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Leroy C. Cloud, who was killed during World War II, will be interred April 6, 2024, at Taylor City Cemetery in Taylor, Texas. (POW/MIA Accounting Agency)

The remains of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Leroy C. Cloud, who was killed during World War II, will be interred April 6 at Taylor City Cemetery in Taylor, Texas.

Cloud, who was assigned to Company A, 744th Tank Battalion, was 24 when he went missing in action on July 26, 1944. His M5A1 Stuart light tank was struck by a shoulder-fired rocket while fighting German forces at Saint-Germain-d’Elle, France, according to a news release from the POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

He will receive a burial with full military honors.

Cloud was identified by the DPAA on Aug. 29, 2023, after his remains were exhumed for laboratory analysis from Normandy American Cemetery in France in April 2018.

As of May 2023, more than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the Gulf Wars/other conflicts. Out of the total, approximately 75% of the losses are located in the Indo-Pacific region, and over 41,000 of the missing are presumed lost at sea (such as ship losses and known aircraft water losses).