PARMA, Idaho — After 80 years missing in action, Idaho soldier Lt. Charles S. Atteberry was recently identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency using DNA technology and is now officially accounted for.

On Monday, October 3, 2025, his remains were buried at the Lower Boise Cemetery in Parma, next to his parents.

A US Army Infantryman who was deployed to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines, Lt. Atteberry was taken as a POW and ultimately died while being held as a prisoner of the Empire of Japan during World War II.

His fate was a topic of debate for years , but a decades-long investigation revealed that he was buried on a beach in Taiwan along with other POWs from the U.S. Armed Forces.

After his remains were positively identified at the National Memorial Cemetery of the

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