This site is dedicated to the thousands of American servicemen who were imprisoned and died of starvation, disease and mistreatment on the Bataan Death March and in Japanese prison camps in the Philippines during World War II. They were abandoned…
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What Is JPAC Afraid Of?
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I have never quite understood why the government wouldn’t identify the remains of my Cousin, Arthur “Bud” Kelder. The Army told Bud’s parents that his remains were non-recoverable. They accepted that because that is what people did back then –…
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Lawsuit Seeks to Identify Bud Kelder
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The good folks at DPMO/JPAC have made it abundantly clear that they don’t intend to return the remains of any unknowns – talk has gotten us nowhere with them. So we have filed suit in Federal District Court here in…
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The Army Wants to Contact Family Members of MIA’s
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While the Department of Defense refuses to investigate the cases of personnel buried as unknowns, the Army Casualty Office at Ft Knox, KY is conducting an aggressive program to locate family members of MIA personnel for the purpose of obtaining…
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A Belated Update
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While we were litigating the FOIA suit we were unable to provide updates, but now we have a lot of new information to add. Several pages listed on the more information links to the left have been consolidated and updated. …
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The Search for Bud
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In late 2009 I obtained the records pertaining to my cousin, Private Arthur H. “Bud” Kelder, and quickly learned that he was originally buried in Camp Cabanatuan cemetery grave number 717 with thirteen other men who died on 19 November…
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The Unknowns of Cabanatuan Grave 717
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During much of the existence of Camp Cabanatuan, all the men who died each day were buried in a single communal grave. Those who died on 19 November 1942 were placed in grave number 717. This information is taken from…