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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday Army Pfc. John L. Ferguson, 20, of Flanagan, Illinois, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War
Private Wayne M. Evans returns to the Bitterroot Valley.
World War II Remains of Hamilton Man Identified Later this year, Army Private Wayne M. Evans will be coming home. Evans died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conclusively identified his remains last year. According to a news release from the DPAA, Evans was a 21-year-old Army Private with Battery G, 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, in the Philippine Islands when the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula to Japanese forces happened in April, 1942. He was held at the Cabanatuan POW camp until his death July 19,1942, according to rese...
A return to the Bitterroot Valley is being planned.
WASHINGTON - An Army Private from Hamilton, Montana, who was captured and died as a prisoner during World War II, was accounted for March 30, 2020.