Barlosky, Leo J.
Army Corporal

Leo J. Barlosky from Pennsylvania, Carbon county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Monday, July 27, 1942
Death details: On September 27, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Leo J. Barlosky, missing from World War II. Corporal Barlosky entered the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and served in the 7th Chemical Company, Aviation. After Japanese forces invaded the Philippines in December 1941, intense fighting continued until the surrender of U.S. forces on the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and Corregidor Island on May 6. CPL Barlosky was among the U.S. personnel who surrendered in Bataan. These prisoners were then subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and held in inhumane conditions at the Cabanatuan POW camp. According to prison camp and other historical records, CPL Barlosky died July 27, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225. Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Three sets of remains from Common Grave 225 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns. In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for study. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one set of these unknown remains and CPL Barlosky.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency