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The family of a U.S. Army private from Southern California who died as a prisoner during World War II can finally give him a proper burial after DNA testing recently identified his remains. U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. John W. Ropp, 31, of Sierra Madre was captured by Japanese soldiers after intense fighting on the […]
Authorities announced that the remains of a Durant native who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II have been identified.
Corporal Franklin Bennett, from Glendive, was among the U.S. personnel who surrendered in the Philippines in December of 1941. The Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday the Department of Defense confirmed his remains this past summer.
Release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
An 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…