SALINAS, Calif. — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that a World War II prisoner of war was identified on Friday.
U.S. Army Corporal Raymond N. DeCloss of Salinas was accounted for on April 29, 2024.
Corporal DeCloss was a member of Company C, 194th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941. Fighting ensued and ended with the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942…