U.S. announces 7 POWs who died in World War II, 9 soldiers killed in Korea have been accounted for
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Sixteen soldiers who died in World War II and the Korean War have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday.
Seven of the U.S. military members accounted for were prisoners of war who died in World War II. The other nine were killed in the Korean War.
The seven prisoners of war - identified as Air Forces Sgt. Jack H. Hohlfeld, Corporal Raymond N. DeCloss, Sgt. Sam A. Prince, Tech. Sgt. Charles E. Young Jr, Air Forces Private Robert W. Cash, Private Jacob Gutterman, and Pfc. Joseph C. Murphy - were some of the thousands of service members who were captured and held as prisoners of war by Japanese forces in the Philippines.
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