Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife Francine were found lying near each other in the Diablerets mountains in Switzerland, along with backpacks, a bottle, a book and a watch - all perfectly preserved.
EXCURSION: Francine, 37, and Marcelin Dumoulin, 40, went to milk cows
Police said a DNA test confirmed it was the missing couple, and it finally brings closure for their seven kids.
Marcelin, a 40-year-old shoemaker at the time, and Francine, a school teacher aged 37, had left their village of Chandolin to milk their cows in a nearby meadow on 15 August 1942.
The couple never returned from their trip, and it was believed they had likely fallen into a crevasse and perished.
Searches were carried out for more than two months, but ultimately the seven orphans - five boys and two girls - were placed in foster homes.
One of their surviving children, Monique Gautschy, said they never stopped searching for their parents.
It was the first time her mom had gone on an excursion with their dad, “because she was always pregnant”.
The head of the Glacier 3000 resort, Bernard Tschannen, said that the bodies were found last Thursday, at an altitude of 2 615 metres.
“‘It was a man and a woman wearing clothes from the last (world) war,” Tschannen told the Le Matin daily.
“The ice preserved them perfectly and their belongings were intact.”