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Next month, U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland's remains will finally be returned home to Colorado, where they will be laid to rest in the same cemetery as his mother and father.
Coloradoans Clifford Strickland, from Fowler, and James B McCartney, from Ridgeway both died in World War II and were identified in 2023.
On Thursday, May 23, U.S. Army Sergeant George Frank Bishop, of Centralia, was buried with full military honors nearly 82 years after he died while being held captive in an Imperial Japanese …
For eight decades, Sgt. George Bishop's remains were unidentifiable until DNA linked him to family living in Centralia, Washington.
Vallejo Soldier Marcus A. Engesser Accounted for from WWII The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced May 14 that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Marcus A. Engesser, 21, of Vallejo, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2023. In late 1942, Engesser was a member of Company L, 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942. […]