One of the hardest fates was that of the family members of the “missing” soldiers who had no grave to go to.
I went to Tarawa in 2013 on a tour led by the grandson of one (Lt. Bonneyman MOH) of the missing and saw personally how JDOD and the private initiative history flight very prudently recoverd remans of the Japanese and American dead on the island.
Here is touching footage of another one coming home