Effort underway to identify ‘unknown’ World War II troops who were buried in the Philippines
HONOLULU — The remains of some U.S. military personnel who died during World War II and were buried anonymously in the Philippines have been returned to Hawaii to try to determine their identities.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently conducted an “honorable carry†ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for about 40 sets of unidentified remains, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday.
The repatriation from the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial was one of the agency’s large disinterment projects, and the remains will be examined at a lab at Hickam for possible identification by forensic anthropologists and others.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/01/05/effort-underway-to-identify-unknown-world-war-ii-troops-who-were-buried-in-the-philippines/
