22-year-old WWII airman Alvin R. Scarborough, POW in the Philippines, identified 81 years after death.
22-year-old WWII airman Alvin R. Scarborough has been identified as a POW 81 years after his death. Captured in the Philippines in 1942, Scarborough was held at Cabanatuan POW camp, where over 2,500 prisoners died. In 2018, DPAA identified his remains from a common grave and accounted for him on September 21, 2023. Scarborough will be buried in Carthage, Mississippi.
August 09, 2024
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