Note: Post updated to include PFC Murray, announced 20 June. Today, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency today released the news that two more Marines killed in action at Tarawa have … Continue reading Back From Tarawa: James, Newell, and Murray
Nicholas Cancilla entered the world on December 6, 1924. He was the second son of Frank and Maria (Arcordia) Cancilla, born two years after his brother, Frank Junior. Though their … Continue reading Brothers & Namesakes
The DPAA has just announced the positive identification of Field Music 1c Warren Gordon Nelson – a member of Company E, Second Battalion, 8th Marines, who until today was listed … Continue reading Identified: Warren G. Nelson
The DPAA has announced the identification of three more Marines MIA since the battle of Tarawa. Private Frank Francis Penna of Canistota, New York, served with Company E, Second Battalion, … Continue reading Back From Tarawa: Penna, Vosmer, and Kines
One day, the war ended. And Jack Prince didn’t come home. He didn’t walk through the door of 88-11 247th Street as he might have done in 1945, with a … Continue reading When Jack Came Home
Thanks to the the ever-alert and excellently informative commenter TF, I’m honored to pass along the word that another of Tarawa’s missing Marines is on his way home. This is … Continue reading IDENTIFIED: Jack Marvin Redman
A reader named Melanie provided a link to this Australian newscast, detailing the finding of PFC Harry Clark Morrissey, PFC Francis E. Drake Jr, and Private Albert Leroy Bernes. A … Continue reading FOUND ON GUADALCANAL: Harry Morrissey, Albert Bernes, Francis Drake
Following the wonderful and touching news of the recovery and burial of PFC Manley F. Winkley, decades after his death on Tarawa, comes the announcement via the DMPO that two … Continue reading IDENTIFIED: Captain Henry S. White, SSgt Thomas L. Meek
Manley Forrest Winkley has been a long time away from home. He walked out the front door of Number 40, North Berwick Avenue, Indianapolis on December 12, 1942. His country … Continue reading The Return of PFC Winkley
The Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Persons Office (DPMO) announced as of June 1, 2013, the remains of PFC Manley Forest Winkley had been recovered from Betio, Tarawa Atoll, … Continue reading RECOVERED: PFC Manley Forest Winkley
