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Press Release | Jan. 22, 2024

USS Pigeon Sailor Accounted for from WWII (Duncan, R.)

WASHINGTON  –  

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Naval Reserve Radioman 2nd Class (RM2c) Robert T. Duncan, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for December 26, 2023.

In September 1942, Duncan was serving aboard the submarine rescue vessel USS Pigeon (ASR-6) in Manila Bay when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.