WWII airman to be buried at Arlington A man photographs a headstone in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on May 28. WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- Remains found buried in a German cemetery in 2008 have been identified as a U.S. airman killed in a 1944 crash, the U.S. Defense Department said Monday. Emil T. Wasilewski, a 2nd lieutenant from Chicago in the Army Air Force, is to be buried Tuesday with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, the Defense Department announced. Wasilewski was one of nine men in the crew of a B-17G Flying Fortress that crashed near Neustaedt-on-the-Werra, Germany, on Sept. One man was able to parachute down but the others were killed in the crash and buried by the Germans. Army Graves Registration located the remains of one crew member after the war for reburial in a military cemetery in Netherlands before the division of Germany closed access to the Neustaedt cemetery. A gravedigger discovered a U.S. military ID tag in 1991 but German laws delayed excavation for several years. The identity of Wasilewski's remains was confirmed by DNA comparison with a nephew. About 79,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen were listed as missing after World War II. The remains of 6,000 have since been located and identified.