Eighty-three years after his death, U.S. Army Pvt. Harry David Bordner of Butte, who was a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, has been officially accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The announcement came Wednesday that Bordner’s remains were verified in April and family members had been notified.

Bordner was a member of the 194th Tank Battalion in the Philippines, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands just hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942. Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps, including Bordner.

He was among the estimated 12,000 U.S. troops and

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