![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Michael-Aiello-235x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Missouri State Journal<\/a> reports that Staff Sergeant Michael Aiello, who was killed during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 is finally on his way home to Springfield, Illinois. He was assigned to the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment. The 401st was attached to the 82d Airborne Division for the operation and after their landing in Holland spent the next 72 days in contact with the enemy.<\/p>\n On Sept. 25, 1944, Sgt. Aiello\u2019s unit was ordered to seize the Kiekberg Woods, a forested area near Groesbeek in the Netherlands, which was near the bridge at Nijmegen. A report the Aiello family received from the military described the fighting in the woods as \u201cferocious.\u201d<\/p>\n Little information is known about the events leading to Sgt. Aiello\u2019s death. Military records indicate he went missing on Sept. 30, 1944. While no remains had been positively identified, military officials issued a presumptive finding of death on Oct. 1, 1945.<\/p>\n Three months later, in January 1946, American authorities retrieved unidentified remains from the Kiekberg Woods and buried them at a military cemetery in Belgium<\/p>\n About eight years ago, Aiello family members learned that a set of remains, possibly belonging to Sgt. Aiello, had been disinterred for identification. Military officials narrowed the search using the physical characteristics of the remains, and DNA samples from two Aiellos confirmed the identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Staff Sergeant Aiello will be interred at Camp Butler National Ceremony on October 28th at 10 AM.<\/p>\n