Missing WWII Soldier from Wilder, Idaho, Identified Decades Later

After nearly eighty years, an Idaho soldier is finally coming home. This June, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the body of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Charles S. Atteberry, 26, of Wilder, Idaho, who was killed during World War II.

After joining the war effort, Lt. Atteberry was assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Army, on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. While there, he was captured by the forces of the Empire of Japan and held in the Philippines as a Prisoner of War until late 1944.