Long Lost, Medal of Honor Recipient’s Remains to Be Returned to Family
Bonnyman’s skeletal remains were unearthed on the island of Betio, in the central Pacific southeast of the Marshall Islands, last month.
I find it hard to believe that Bonnyman was “lost.”
The combat footage of Lt Bonnyman’s ad hoc unit “Forlorn Hope’s” assault on a large pillbox is a often viewed part of photographic footage contained in the Tarawa documentary... Bonnyman is seen as one of a group of several Marines atop the pillbox just moments before he was shot and killed by Japanese fleeing out of the rear of the about to be overtaken/destroyed pillbox......
I was always told that Bonnyman was dis-interned from Tarawa and reburied at the National Cemetery at the Punchbowl in Hawaii..... as were the other 2 MOH winners at Tarawa......