MIA Update - April 22, 2024

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MIA Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced three burial updates for service members who have been missing and unaccounted for from World War II. Returning home for burial with full military honors are:

-- Seaman First Class James W. Holzhauer, 23, of Abingdon, Virginia, was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. He was among 429 crewmen killed that day. He will be buried on May 20, 2024, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl), Honolulu, Hawaii. Read about Holzhauer https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Press-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3743059/uss-oklahoma-sailor-accounted-for-from-wwii-holzhauer-j/.
-- Army Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kenneth J. McKeeman, 23, of Brooklyn, New York, was assigned to the 724th Bombardment Squadron, 451st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. He was killed in action on March 11, 1944. He will be buried in Middletown, Connecticut, on June 7, 2024. Read about McKeeman https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Press-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3742523/airman-accounted-for-from-wwii-mckeeman-k/.
-- Army Private 1st Class Harry Jerele, 26, of Berkeley, Illinois, was a member of the 192nd Tank 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 Dec. 28 that same year. He will be buried in Elwood, Illinois, on Oct. 6, 2024. Read about Jerele https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Press-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3745426/soldier-accounted-for-from-wwii-jerele-h/.