This weekend, a World War II veteran from Pittsburgh will go to his final resting place in Allegheny County after his remains were unidentified for 80 years.

As Lesa Naughton looked at her uncle's casket Friday afternoon, she was glad to be with him for the first time, but it was also bittersweet for her loved ones who were no longer here.

"It's like when you come to the end of a long journey, you know you have that closure, that peace," Naughton said. "They weren't able to ever witness this happening, so it's nice to be able to do it for them."

U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Paul Eshelman Jr. landed on Pennsylvania soil after more than eight decades away and made his way to H.P. Brandt Funeral Home in Ross Township.

The Pittsburgh man was killed on August 1, 1943, during Operation TIDA

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