From the January 5, 2020, Navy Times. AP
They were buried in the Philippines and now have been sent to Hawaii for identification. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently conducted an "honorable carry" ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for 40 sets of unidentified remains. They were exhumed from the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. They will be examined for DNA at a lab at Hickam.
The agency, which has an annual budget of $169 million and hundreds of personnel in Hawaii, investigates, recovers and identifies American military personnel from past wars.
--GreGen
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