An 18-year-old Navy seaman who was killed aboard a U.S. destroyer during World War II has been accounted for more than 80 years after his death, military officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Navy Reserve Seaman 2nd Class Jerome M. Mullaney, 18, was assigned to the destroyer USS Glennon in the summer of 1944, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release . The Glennon participated in D-Day on June 6, 1944. Two days after the invasion, it struck an underwater mine off the coast of France. The ship became trapped and could not be towed to safety before it was struck by a German artillery barrage on June 10.

The ship sank after being hit by the German barrage. Mullaney and 24 other sailors were recorded as missing. Mullaney was declared non-recoverable in May 1949, just under five y

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