On March 21, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Captain Edward Glenn Walker Jr., missing from World War II.
Captain Walker entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Tennessee and served as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. His company landed at Red Beach 2 on Betio Island on November 20, 1943, during the Battle of Tarawa. The Marines came under heavy fire as they landed and five of the Company's six officers were lost, including Capt Walker. His body was originally misidentified during searches of the island conducted after the battle and his actual remains were labeled as "Unknowns" and interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
In 2017, these remains were disinterred and examined with modern forensic tools that helped successfully identify them as those of Capt Walker.
Captain Walker entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Tennessee and served as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. His company landed at Red Beach 2 on Betio Island on November 20, 1943, during the Battle of Tarawa. The Marines came under heavy fire as they landed and five of the Company's six officers were lost, including Capt Walker. His body was originally misidentified during searches of the island conducted after the battle and his actual remains were labeled as "Unknowns" and interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
In 2017, these remains were disinterred and examined with modern forensic tools that helped successfully identify them as those of Capt Walker.
On March 21, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Captain Edward Glenn Walker Jr., missing from World War II.
Captain Walker entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Tennessee and served as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. His company landed at Red Beach 2 on Betio Island on November 20, 1943, during the Battle of Tarawa. The Marines came under heavy fire as they landed and five of the Company's six officers were lost, including Capt Walker. His body was originally misidentified during searches of the island conducted after the battle and his actual remains were labeled as "Unknowns" and interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
In 2017, these remains were disinterred and examined with modern forensic tools that helped successfully identify them as those of Capt Walker.
Captain Walker entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Tennessee and served as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. His company landed at Red Beach 2 on Betio Island on November 20, 1943, during the Battle of Tarawa. The Marines came under heavy fire as they landed and five of the Company's six officers were lost, including Capt Walker. His body was originally misidentified during searches of the island conducted after the battle and his actual remains were labeled as "Unknowns" and interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
In 2017, these remains were disinterred and examined with modern forensic tools that helped successfully identify them as those of Capt Walker.
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