"MISSING IN ACTION"
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The Registrar
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The twelve Troopers whose bodies have not been recovered are
memorialized on the
walls of the Manila Cemetery, situate about six miles south-east of Manila
within the limits of Fort Bonifacio, the former U.S. Army Fort William McKinley. It can be reached most easily by taxi cab.
The cemetery, 152 acres in extent, is on a prominent plateau, and
contains the largest number of graves of the U.S. military war dead of WWII -
Seventeen thousand two hundred and six.
On the rectangular piers of the memorial are inscribed the names of
36,282 of the Missing, and who rest in unknown graves.
The 503d PRCT Troopers memorialized there are:
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