In this May 21, 2018, photo, Jim DeMoss rests on a headstone as he visits his family at the DeMoss Family Cemetery in Nashville, Tenn. (Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean via AP)NASHVILLE - For 73 years, the remains of Nashville World War II Navy pilot Harold DeMoss have been difficult to reach - but not hard to find.
In the waning months of the war, DeMoss's plane crashed into a remote outcrop on the Hawaii island of Oahu during a night-flight training mission on July 23, 1945.
A search party reached the crash site three days later, burying what they could find. Weeks later, another group returned, and a Navy lieutenant recited the "Lord's Prayer" over the shallow grave of the 21-year-old Nashville farmer's son.
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In this May 21, 2018, photo, Jim DeMoss rests on one of the headstones after looking at his parents grave and pointing out where his brother Harold will be laid to rest at the DeMoss Family Cemetery in Nashville, Tenn. Decades after crashing in Hawaii the remains of Harold DeMoss, a World War II pilot, have been positively identified. (Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean via AP)