The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ( website ) announced this week that U.S. Army Pvt. Henry D. Bordner of Butte, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for April 2, 2025.

Bordner's family recently received their full briefing on his identification, therefore, additional details on his identification can be shared.

The DPAA said in a news release that in late 1941, Bordner was a member of the 194th Tank Battalion in the Philippines, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. 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. Bordner was among those repo

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