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Forensic Teams Work to Identify Remains of American POWs Killed in Tokyo Firebombing During World...
Military.com via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoDozens of American military prisoners of war died in Tokyo amid the U.S. firebombing of Japan as...
Surviving Bataan: Fayetteville area prisoner of war connections
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn 1988, Congress approved designating April 9 as Former Prisoners of War Day. The day commemorates...
Friendly fire on a Japanese prison ship resulted in the loss of Red Lion soldier’s life
York Daily Record via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoRed Lion’s Thomas Frutiger survived the incessant and deadly Japanese assault on the Philippines in...
California soldier died in a WWII prison camp. Now 80 years later, he’s coming home
Modesto Bee via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWhile serving in the Philippines during World War II, U.S. Army Air Corps Pfc. Glenn Harris was...
Karnig Thomasian lived a full life, even as his World War II POW scars remained | Kelly
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAmerica said goodbye to another World War II veteran. But this was different. Karnig Thomasian’s...
MIA 82 years ago, DNA unites family, gets ex-POW Hurst home for Vero Beach area burial
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 4 months agoLouise Hurst Bass never drove, but raised six children, setting their wash on the clothesline before...
Colorado POW’s remains identified after 82 years: Clifford H. Strickland finally accounted for
KXRM Colorado Springs via Yahoo News· 4 months ago(FLORENCE, Colo.) — The remains of a Colorado prisoner of war have been positively identified after...
Remains of World War II POW, Bataan Death March survivor identified
Army Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDefense Department researchers have identified the remains of a 28-year-old Army private who was...
A promise kept: WWII POW's remains buried in Pawtucket next to his mother and brother
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPAWTUCKET – The remains of World War II veteran Henry McConnell were buried in the family plot in...
Remains of WWII POW from Massachusetts accounted for
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn American service member who survived the notorious Bataan Death March during World War II but later died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp has finally been accounted for, military officials ...