MIA Update - 6/24/16

[boardman]

MIA Update: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Office announced burial updates and the identification of remains of one soldier, two Marines and one Army Air Forces pilot, who had been missing in action from World War II. Returning home for burial with full military honors are:
-- Army Cpl. George P. Grifford, 18, of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., will be buried June 27 in Arlington National Cemetery. On Nov. 30, 1950, Grifford was a member of the 37th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near Kunu-ri, North Korea. It would be later learned he died as a prisoner of war on Feb. 6, 1951. Read more at http://www.dpaa.mil/NewsStories/NewsRel ... fford.aspx.
-- Marine Pfc. James F. Mansfield, 19, of Plymouth, Mass., was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands. He reportedly died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943. Burial details to come.
-- Marine Pvt. Harry K. Tye, 20, of Gallagher, W.Va., was assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands. He reportedly died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943. Burial details to come.
-- Army Air Forces Flight Officer Judson B. Baskett, 26, of Harris County, Texas, went missing on Nov. 28, 1946, while piloting a C-47B Dakota aircraft with two other crewmen over Malaysia. He was assigned to the 1305th Army Air Base Unit. Burial details to come.