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From Unknown Grave to Honored Soldier: The Remarkable Identification of WWII Private Harland Hennessey.
2025/12/03 Report

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For more than 80 years, the family of Private Harland Joseph Hennessey lived with a question no one could answer:
He left home as a young soldier in 1942, deployed overseas with thousands of others. He never returned, and for decades the only official label attached to his name was three painful letters —


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MIA: Missing in Action.

There was no grave.
No remains.
No certainty.

Only silence.

A Life Interrupted by War

Hennessey served with the 128th Infantry Regiment during the early years of World War II.

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