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August 3, 2015 by Clay Bonnyman Evans

Here are links to three new stories about History Flight’s discovery of the remains of some three dozen Marines killed in the battle of Tarawa, Nov. 20-23, 1943. Among the remains positively identified are those of First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., my grandfather.

The remains of some three dozen U.S. Marine remains recovered this spring from Tarawa. U.S. Marine Corps photo.

WWII Marines’ remains finally home, CNN, July 30, 2015

Boulder Man Perseveres In Effort To Find Body Of His Marine Great-Grandfather, Colorado Matters with Ryan Warner, KCFR, Colorado Public Radio, Aug. 3, 2015

Remains of fallen Marines to be returned to families, FOX News, July 29, 2015

Marines killed in WWII battle back on U.S. soil, Stars and Stripes (via the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, which did not post the story), July 26, 2015

Remains of WWII Marine ‘Sandy’ Bonnyman Jr. with ties to Rome are on the way home, Northwest Georgia News (Rome), Aug. 1, 2015

Remains of 36 unidentified Marines from WWII battle being returned from remote Pacific atoll, U.S. News & World Report, July 27, 2015

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About Clay Bonnyman Evans

Clay Bonnyman Evans is a freelance writer who lives in South Carolina and Colorado. In his career as a journalist, he wrote for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register and Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.) His book, "Bones of My Grandfather," will be published by Skyhorse Publishing in July 2018. It is the story of his grandfather, First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., who was killed in the battle of Tarawa on Nov. 22, 1943 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Since 2010, Evans has been involved with efforts to recover Marine remains from Tarawa with nonprofit History Flight, Inc. He was present in May 2015 for the discovery and exhumation of his grandfather, who was reinterred in Knoxville, Tennessee in September 2015. More.