The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that a first-class United States Army private, who was captured and killed as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for in August.
According to a press release from the DPAA Friday, U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Gordon N. Larson, 22, of Seattle, was accounted for on Aug. 12.
Larson was a member of Battery B, 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, in 1942. Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December, and after fighting Bataan peninsula and Corregidor Island were surrendered. As a result, thousands of U.S. and Filipino army men were captured and forced into internment camps. Larson was among them…