A soldier from Delaware has been accounted for after he was killed during World War II, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
Wilmington native U.S. Army Lt. Col. Louis E. Roemer was 43 in early 1942 when he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in the Philippines by Japan, the agency said.
Lt. Col. Roemer was on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines assigned to the Chemical Warfare Service before the capture, the agency explained.
In 1945, the Japanese military moved the prisoners to Manila so they could be taken to Japan on the ship Oryoku Maru which was ultimately attacked by a U.S. aircraft and sank, according to the agency…