Press Release | March 21, 2024

Soldier Accounted for from WWII (Shutts, D.)

WASHINGTON  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Private Donald L. Shutts, missing in action during World War II, was accounted for Mar. 14, 2024.

In February 1944, Shutts was assigned to the Company F, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. On Feb. 19, Shutts was reported missing when his unit was engaged by German Forces near the town of Ponte Rotto, Italy. He was last seen lying unresponsive in a field roughly three miles northwest of Campomorto. His body was not recovered, and the Germans never reported him a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on Feb. 19, 1944.