Push to identify remains of POWS who endured Bataan Death March, hell ships
More than 80 years later, the remains of U.S. POWs buried as “unknowns,” or entombed in the holds of Japanese “hell ships” sunk by U.S. warplanes and submarines, have started coming home to families who kept their memories alive. In an extraordinary and ongoing effort, specialists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, using new techniques…