Funerals will be held next week for the following previously missing US personnel recently accounted for by DPAA.<\/p>\n
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This October<\/i><\/a>, DPAA announced that it had accounted for Pfc John R. Bayens, USMC Reserve. Pfc Bayens was lost on Tarawa on 22 November 1943.<\/p>\n Pfc Bayens will be buried next week \u2013 on Monday, 16 December \u2013 in Louisville, Kentucky. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location and time for his funeral services or interment.<\/p>\n If any TAH readers have the precise location and time for Pfc Bayens\u2019 funeral services or interment, please post it in comments below. And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here\u2019s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.<\/p>\n . . .<\/b><\/p>\n This October<\/i><\/a>, DPAA announced that it had accounted for Pfc Jack B. Van Zandt, USMC Reserve. Pfc Van Zandt was lost on Tarawa on 22 November 1943.<\/p>\n Pfc Van Zandt will be buried next week \u2013 on Tuesday, 17 December \u2013 in Danville, Illinois. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location and time for his funeral services or interment.<\/p>\n If any TAH readers have the precise location and time for Pfc Van Zandt’s funeral services or interment, please post it in comments below. And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here\u2019s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.<\/p>\n . . .<\/b><\/p>\n