Members of the STPSO Traffic division, along with Louisiana State Police, were scheduled to escort a hero from the airport to the Mississippi state line last night.
The Defense POW/MIA reports that through DNA analysis, the remains of Hattiesburg Marine, Sgt. Harold Hammett, were identified and he will be returned home to Hattiesburg, MS for burial.
Sgt. Hammett was killed in World War II and he will have a final resting place more than 80 years after his death. He will be buried Friday, on what would have been his 105th birthday, at Roseland Park Cemetery in Hattiesburg.
Hammett was the fifth of eight children born to Emry Holmes “E. H.” Hammett and Eva Jane Sharp Hammett. Hammett enlisted in the Marine Corps on Aug. 1, 1940, in San Francisco, then was sent to the South Pacific in July 1942. He was in the Battle on Tulagi and in several major battles on Guadalcanal.
