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Pvt Floyd A. Fulmer enlisted at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on 6 April 1943.

He was wounded in action on 25 September 1944 for which he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal the first time.

Pvt Floyd A. Fulmer was reported missing in action on 14 November 1944. He was officially declared death one day and one year later.

In April 1947, following demining operations, a set of remains was recovered above ground, lying in a foxhole from the Raffelsbrand sector of the Hürtgen Forest. It was assumed he was killed by small arms fire or shrapnel.

The remains were sent to the central processing point at Neuville, Belgium. They were unable to be identified, were designated X-5460, and buried at Neuville American Cemetery.

Since 18 April 1950, his remains were buried as Unknown at Plot C, Row 5, Grave 42.

Based upon the original recovery location of X-5460, a DPAA historian determined that there was a likely association between the remains and Fulmer. In April 2018, the Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission disinterred X-5460 and accessioned the remains to the DPAA laboratory for identification.

To identify Fulmer’s remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis, dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.

On 29 November 2018 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that this remains were accounted for on 27 November 2018. A rosette is placed next to his name.

He is given his final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery on 18 July 2019.

He is also remembered at the Rosemont Cemetery in Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina.