WILDER, Idaho — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently announced that they have " accounted for " 2nd Lieutenant Charles S. Atteberry of Wilder, Idaho.

Atteberry's fate was previously a topic of debate after the Empire of Japan took him as a prisoner of war in 1944 while deployed as a member of the 31st Infantry Regiment to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.

A news release indicates that after Atteberry was captured, he was transported to Manila, where he boarded the Oryoku Maru bound for mainland Japan. Unaware of the presence of POWs on board, U.S. aircraft bombed the ship, which sank in Subic Bay.

Although it's unclear how he survived the attack, Atteberry was then taken aboard the Enoura Maru bound for Takao, Formosa, now modern-day Taiwan. That ship was also hit by

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