A U.S. Army soldier from Northern California who was captured during World War II and died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday.
Cpl. Walter L. Clark, 28, of Santa Rosa, California, was a member of the 19th Quartermaster Truck Company when Japan invaded the Phillippine Islands in December 1941. U.S. forces surrendered on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942 and on Corregidor Island in May 1942.
