On May 31, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Bruce H. Brown, 23, of Richmond, California, killed during World War II, has now been officially accounted for as of Sept. 22, 2023, thanks to DNA analysis.
Brown is listed as a citizen of California, but he has family in several Texas counties, including Harris County.
1st Lt. Bruce Brown was the son of Bertha Punkoney Barron of Texas, and the stepson of Fred Westle Barron of Hanford, California. He was born in Miami, Arizona, but he lived most of his life in Hanford moving to Richmond, California in 1940…