Remains of soldier who died in WWII Japanese POW camp ID’d
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Remains of soldier who died in WWII Japanese POW camp ID’d

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Experts have identified the remains of a soldier from Massachusetts who died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the the Philippines during World War II, the military said on Monday. Arthur L. Pierce, 26, of Malden, was accounted for in July through mitochondrial DNA analysis as well as anthropological analysis and circumstantial evidence, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a statement. He was among thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members captured and held in POW camps after surviving the 65-mile Bataan Death March. Joseph E. Lescaut, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who also died at Cabanatuan after the Bataan Death March, had also recently been accounted for.

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