World War II

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Wednesday it has identified the remains of U.S. Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi of New Ulm, Minnesota, a Medal of Honor recipient who was captured in 1942 on the Bataan Peninsula and later died when a Japanese transport carrying POWs was sunk. His remains, recovered in 1946 in Taiwan and interred as unknown at Honolulu’s Punchbowl, were identified using anthropological analysis and DNA testing after DPAA disinterred related unknowns in 2022–2023; he will be buried in Minnesota in May.