WASHINGTON –
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that United States Army Pfc. Charles N. Milam, 20, missing in action during World War II, was accounted for May 8, 2025.
In January 1944, Milam was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. From late January through late May 1944, the 3rd Infantry Division fought in the Battle of Anzio in Italy. On January 31, Milam was reported missing during combat against German forces near the small hamlet of Ponte Rotto, close to the town of Cisterna di Latina (Cisterna). Members of his squad believed that he may have been killed in action by artillery at some point that day, but his body was not recovered. Having no evidence that Milam had survived the conflict, the War Department issued a presumptive finding of death on April 19, 1945.
After the end of hostilities, the American Graves Registration Service, U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the Mediterranean Theater. In July 1944, graves registration personnel recovered a set of remains, designated as X-462 Nettuno, near Ponte Rotto. However, the AGRS did not have enough data to positively identify the remains and interred them interred at U.S. Military Cemetery Nettuno, now Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. On Aug. 11, 1949, the Office of the Quartermaster General declared Milam non-recoverable.
This is an initial release. The complete accounting of Milam's case will be published once the family receives their full briefing.
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Milam's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XdpaEAC.