James M. Derflinger from Virginia, Warren county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, November 3, 1945
Death details: Died non-battle
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Derflinger, James M.
Potts, Benjamin T.
Army 1st lieutenant
Benjamin T. Potts, age 21, from Virginia, Frederick county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, December 12, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Moore, Joseph R.
Army Technical sergeant
Joseph R. Moore, age 27, from Virginia, Henrico county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, December 11, 1944
Death details: Finding of death
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Mauck, James M.
Army 1st lieutenant
James M. Mauck, age 24, from Virginia, Norfolk county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, November 17, 1944
Death details: Finding of death
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Moss, Thomas O.
Army Technical sergeant
Thomas O. Moss from Virginia, Greene county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, November 7, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Harden, Ira I.
Army Staff sergeant
Ira I. Harden, age 23, from Virginia, Smyth county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, November 5, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Bean, Richard N.
Army Private 1st class
Richard N. Bean from Virginia, Montgomery county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, July 7, 1944
Death details: On September 9, 2014, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Richard N. Bean, missing from World War II. Private First Class Bean entered the U.S. Army from Virginia and served in Company D, 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. On July 7, 1944, his unit was fighting on Saipan when Japanese forces launched a massive banzai attack at dawn on July 7, 1944. PFC Bean was killed when the charge broke through the American lines. The active battlefield prevented the recovery of his body at the time, and recovery efforts on Saipan conducted immediately after the war were unable to locate his remains. In 2013, a joint U.S. and Japanese investigative team recovered human remains and a military identification tag bearing PFC Bean’s name from an unmarked burial site in the vicinity of Achugao Village. These remains were brought to the JPAC lab in Hawaii where analysts were able to identify PFC Bean from them.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission; Virginia Military Dead database, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Reuter, George J.
Army 1st lieutenant
George J. Reuter, age 25, from Virginia, Elizabeth City county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, August 1, 1943
Death details: In the summer of 1943, Reuter was assigned to the 328th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Reuter was serving as the navigator was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania. He was accounted for January 10, 2023.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Snow, William Kelly
Navy Chief water tender
William Kelly Snow, age 41, from Virginia, Wythe county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, January 7, 1943
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Chief Water Tender William Kelly Snow joined the U.S. Navy from Virginia and was stationed at Fort Mills on Corregidor, which served as the headquarters for the Philippine Department’s defenses of Manila Bay during World War II. He was captured by the Japanese during the defense of Corregidor and was eventually interned at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp, where he died of dysentery on January 7, 1943. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Chief Water Tender Snow is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Hall, Garland L.
Army Corporal
Garland L. Hall from Virginia, Norfolk county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, November 27, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Private Garland L. Hall joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from Virginia and was a member of the 803rd Engineers Battalion in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of beriberi and pellagra on November 27, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private Hall is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency