Honor Flight Bluegrass is hosting the two-day event in two different locations in Kentucky.
He was accounted for in September 2024 after his remains were exhumed in March 2022.
However, last September, scientists were finally able to identify the remains as Kenneth Burgess.
The veterans will visit the war memorials, and then go to Arlington National Cemetery.
Thursday marked 82 years since the United States was pulled into World War II.
Army Private First Class Henry C. Wade was buried with his sister at a national cemetery in Pulaski County on Wednesday.
A Louisville soldier received the military's fourth-highest honor nearly 80 years after dying in combat.
The homecoming of a Kentucky World War II veteran has been 81 years in the making.
The remains of Seaman First Class Elmer Patterson Lawrence came back from Hawaii to be buried in Railton, Kentucky, this weekend.
Indiana native Pvt. First Class Leonard Adams was killed in 1945 in a battle against the Germans where only two men made it out alive.