The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, recently accounted-for from World War II, are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
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Remains of a serviceman killed in a World War II battle in the Pacific have been identified as a Marine from California’s Central Coast, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.
Pfc. Royal L. Waltz, 20, of Cambria was accounted for in May 2019 but the announcement was delayed until after a recent briefing of relatives.
In 1943, Waltz was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which encountered stiff Japanese resistance while taking the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands.
Approximately 1,000 Marines and sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded in several days of fighting. The dead were buried in battlefield cemeteries and recovered between 1946 and 1947.
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