WASHINGTON –
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Floyd A. Dunning, 32, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 18, 2025.
In April 1942, Dunning was assigned to the Medical Department on the Bataan Peninsula, in the Philippines. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Empire of Japan in the Philippines from 1942 to 1944 when the Japanese military moved POWs to Manila for transport to Japan aboard the transport ship Oryoku Maru. Unaware the allied POWs were on board, a U.S. carrier-borne aircraft attacked the Oryoku Maru, which eventually sank in Subic Bay. Dunning was then transported to Takao, Formosa, known today as Taiwan, aboard the Enoura Maru. After U.S. forces sank the Enoura Maru in January 1945, the Japanese military reported that Dunning was placed aboard the transport ship Brazil Maru, bound for Moji, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. During the transport, Japanese authorities reported that Dunning died of “wounds received in action” on Jan. 15, 1945.
This is an initial release. The complete accounting of Dunning's case will be published once the family receives their full briefing.
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