A United States soldier has returned home. The remains of Private Mack Homer, United States Army, arrived at Jacksonville International Airport on Friday in a coffin draped with an American flag.
His remains were recently identified in France where he died on July 7, 1944 in an explosion along with fellow members of his unit following the D-Day invasion in Normandy.
Homer was born on Feb. 10, 1924, and entered the United States Army at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Feb. 10, 1943, according to his obituary. He served with Company E, 364th Engineer General Service Regiment, United States Army Corps of Engineers, in the European Theater of Operations during World War II…