Press Release | Sept. 24, 2024

Soldier Accounted for from WWII (Bryant, R.)

Washington  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Robert L. Bryant, missing in action during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 18, 2024.

In September 1943, Bryant was assigned to Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion “Darby’s Rangers” in the Mediterranean Theater in World War II. On Sept. 23, Bryant was reported killed in action in the vicinity of the Pietre, Italy, during Operation Avalanche. His body was not recovered, and the Germans never reported him a prisoner of war. The War Department declared him non-recoverable on July 19, 1949.