Posted on: Friday, March 4, 2005

World War II unknown may be identified at last

Photo by Richard Ambo
Advertiser Staff Photographer

Col. Claude H. Davis, left, and Maj. Gen. W. Montague Winfield, right, deputy commander and commander of the Joint POW/MIA Account-ing Command, saluted the coffin of an unknown World War II service- man yesterday as it was draped with a flag at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

The remains were exhumed for forensic study at the command's laboratory.

The remains, circumstantially associated with a missing pilot lost in the Philippines, will undergo DNA testing and anthropological study in an effort to identify them.