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The Missing Marines ofTarawa
By encinoman
The Princeton Alumni Weekly just published my cover story &;Issue in Doubt.&;
It&;s about how the U.S. military lost track of hundreds of Marines killed at Tarawa in World War II, including Medal of Honor winner and former Princeton student Alexander Bonnyman&;and how despite the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), whose motto is: “Until they are home&;, depressing political considerations usually mean that the search for Vietnam-era remains get priority over missing WWII or Korean vets.
Due partly to battle conditions, but largely to a series of screw-ups during and after the war, only 49% of the 1000 Marines killed over three days in November 1943 were ever found and repatriated to the U.S.
Can Bonnyman and the other &;missing&; Marines be found and returned to their families? I don&;t know&;but I do think the U.S. owes them a better effort.
Twelve-year-old Fran Bonnyman accepts the Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to her father, Alexander “Sandy” Bonnyman Jr. ’32, from Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal ’15 in 1947.
Tags: government-coverup, Michael-Goldstein, missing-Marines, Princeton, Tarawa
This entry was posted on May 12, 2009 at 9:37 pm and is filed under investigative-journalism.
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