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Federal Tipoffs Involving Mississippi Newsletter for Saturday August 10, 2024 ( 1 items )  

Airman Accounted for from WWII (Scarborough, A.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Alvin R. Scarborough, 22, of Dossville, Mississippi, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 21, 2023. In late 1942, Scarborough was a member of 454th Ordnance Company (Aviation), when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine   more