Press Release | Oct. 21, 2024

Soldier Accounted for from WWII (Larson, G.)

WASHINGTON  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Gordon N. Larson, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for August 12, 2024.

In late 1941, Larson was a member of Battery B, 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, 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.