The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Effort Underway to Identify 'Unknown' World War II Troops Buried in the Philippines

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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