Full Military Funeral Honors with Escort are Conducted for U.S. Army Air Force Private Bernard Curran (POW) in Section 62 of Arlington National Cemetery Virginia on June 2, 2025 - 24

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announcement: * Archived at: ------------- Soldiers from the U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own,” the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), and the Caisson Detachment conduct full military funeral honors with escort for U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. Bernard Curran in Section 62 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, June 2, 2025. Curran was a prisoner of war during World War II. From the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA): In late 1941, Curran was a member of 17th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942. Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Curran was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war. According to prison camp and other historical records, Curran died Nov. 14, 1942, and was buried

Date

2025

Photographer / author

Arlington National Cemetery

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Wikimedia Commons

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