MIA Update - February 21, 2023
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:29 pm
MIA Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced one new identification for a service member who has been missing and unaccounted-for from World War II.
-- Army Pvt. Leroy M. Slenker, 28, was a member of the 75th Ordnance Depot Company, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula in April 1942 and of Corregidor Island in May 1942. Interment services are pending. Read about Slenker https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News- ... slenker-l/.
-- Army Pvt. Leroy M. Slenker, 28, was a member of the 75th Ordnance Depot Company, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula in April 1942 and of Corregidor Island in May 1942. Interment services are pending. Read about Slenker https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News- ... slenker-l/.