An airman who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been identified 81 years later as a 23-year-old man from Salt Lake City.
U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. Doyle W. Sexton was accounted for on July 13, according to an announcement from The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Friday.
"In late 1942, Sexton was a member of the Headquarters Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December," a DPAA press release stated. "Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942."Officials said he was a subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March before being held at the Cabanatuan POW camp, where more than 2,500 POWs died during the war.
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