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MIA Update - March 4, 2024

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:27 am
by boardman
MIA Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced one burial update for a service member who has been missing and unaccounted for from World War II. Returning home for burial with full military honors is:

-- Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland, 25, of Fowler, Colorado, was a member of Company C, 803rd Engineer Battalion. He was among those captured in the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942. He died while a prisoner of war on July 29 that same year. He will be buried in Florence, Colorado, on June 29, 2024. Read about Strickland https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3689332/soldier-accounted-for-from-wwii-strickland-c/.