A soldier who died when a B-25 bomber went down in Papua New Guinea during World War II has been laid to rest in his western Michigan hometown nearly eight decades after his death.

A soldier from Metro Detroit has returned home from Europe for the first time in two years, and decided to surprise her siblings while they were at school.

The remains of a Michigan soldier who went missing during the Korean War nearly 70 years ago will be interred Monday at Great Lakes National Cemetery.

Pfc. Philip T. Hoogacker, a Detroit native, was 23 years old.