WWII remains could be of Valley Marine

YOUNGSTOWN — The remains of a Youngstown Marine may be among the 139 Marines and sailors a privately funded venture says it has discovered in eight gravesites on Tarawa Atoll, site of one of the most deadly World War II battles in the Pacific Theater.

“We have all the records for the 43 cemeteries on Tarawa — some trench mass graves, some individual and all sizes in between,” said Ted Darcy of the WFI Research Group of Fall River, Mass. WFI research was joined by the History Flight organization of Marathon, Fla., in the search for the missing Marines and sailors.

“We knew what graves had not been found after the war, and have all the original burial plots, maps and lists of those buried. One of the lists contains the name of Andrew Polmaskitch Jr. of Youngstown.” Darcy said.

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