WASHINGTON –
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Tech5 Ingwell V. Bartleson, 35, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Mar. 17, 2026.
In late 1941, Bartleson was assigned to 194th Tank Battalion, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Bartleson was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then transferred to Tayabas Road camp.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Bartleson died on June 12, 1942, of malaria and dysentery, at the Tayabas Road work detail in the present-day province of Camarines Norte on the Philippine Island of Luzon and was buried in the Tayabas Road camp cemetery.
This is an initial release. The complete accounting of Bartleson’s case will be published once his family receives a full briefing.
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