PHOTO GALLERY: WWII veteran honored in Fayetteville, New Beginnings opens

September 15, 2021 at 11:15 a.m.

by Spencer Tirey

Robert Mitchell, 90, of Fort Smith presentes a flag Tuesday during a military burial ceremony for his brother, 2nd Lt. Henry Donald Mitchell of Harmon, at the Fayetteville National Cemetery. Robert Mitchell led a decades-long effort to find the remains of his brother, whose Lockheed P-38 Lightning went down July 8, 1944 while serving with the 48th Fighter Squadron over Austria during World War II, and have to them returned to Arkansas for burial. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)
Robert Mitchell, 90, of Fort Smith presentes a flag Tuesday during a military burial ceremony for his brother, 2nd Lt. Henry Donald Mitchell of Harmon, at the Fayetteville National Cemetery. Robert Mitchell led a decades-long effort to find the remains of his brother, whose Lockheed P-38 Lightning went down July 8, 1944 while serving with the 48th Fighter Squadron over Austria during World War II, and have to them returned to Arkansas for burial. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)

Wednesday's photo gallery includes a funeral at the Fayetteville National Cemetery for a World War II pilot whose remains were recently identified and a ribbon-cutting celebration for the opening of New Beginnings.

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