Seven WWII Remains Recovered in Manus

Seven WWII Remains Recovered in Manus

Headlines in The National, January 12, 2003

Seven Dogtags and [possible] remains were reported as located in a garden on Los Negros Island; Manus recently, near Mokoreng village.

The names reported in the paper were;
David Donaldson T47 USN Reserve;
Edward W. Jones, 7013118 T43
Eugene O. Rose 39298660 T43A
Jack M Dorscher 37560975; Dora Dorscher, Pettibone, N. Dakota
Roger Virginius 029345 P.T.-4/45 USMCR A
James Edward Parriot 376-32-41 T5?42-0 USN-P
Efren R. Sandoval 1801857 T-43

Anyone with information related to any of these names, or next of kin, email me. Thanks to John Douglas for this news clipping.

John Douglas adds:
"I checked the US Battlefield Memorial site, and could not find any of the above listed as MIA. The invasion of Manus was carried out by the 1st US Cav Div, while none of the above names are obviously Army origin. There was a heavy Navy presence after the battles, when much of the Philippines Invasion fleet assembled in Adler Harbour The Tags may belong to men who were posted to Manus and somehow lost their tags at the same location, perhaps after admittance to hospital but who survived the war; or were the result of some local experiments with a dogtag making machine. The bones could have been gathered up at a later time."

Terry Geary adds:
I checked the Roster of WWII Dead (all services), theses name do not show up, except for the only name listed as: Edward W. Jones Tec-4 US Army service #6658290, first interned at Oahu Schofield Barracks Cemetery, Hawaii, later moved to a permanent cemtery at National Memorial Cemetery of Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Plot N, Grave #45

Justin Taylan adds:
"I was able to locate a reative of Jack M Dorscher, in North Dakota, and hope to be in touch with him. He survived the war and did serve in the Manus area.

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