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  • U.S. Marine Killed in WWII 73 Years Ago Returns Home

    11/30/2016 3:31:02 PM PST · by PROCON · 21 replies
    freebeacon.com ^ | Nov. 29, 2016 | Jack Heretik
    A young Marine killed in the bloody World War II Battle of Tarawa has finally been brought home and has been laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Pfc. Wilbur C. Mattern was 23 years old when he was killed on November 21, 1943, the second day of the three-day battle to take the atoll back from the Japanese. He was found earlier this year by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), whose function is to search for missing American servicemembers around the world, identify them and return them home for proper burial with honors. Mattern was buried on the...