Alabama soldier killed in WWII laid to rest on Gulf Coast

SPANISH FORT, Ala. — An Alabama soldier killed in 1944 while fighting in World War II was buried Friday at a veterans cemetery following the identification of his remains, which were found in Germany after the war. Bill Morrison at the Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery, located in Baldwin County across Mobile Bay from Mobile. Morrison’s remains were identified last summer using DNA testing, according to the Defense Department, and they were returned to Alabama last week. A U.S. military historian determined that remains found by a German civilian after the war might have been those of Morrison, but they were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery in 1950 without further identification possible.