Lost in 1942, WWII Soldier Will Be Laid to Rest at Wisconsin Veteran Cemetery

FORT KNOX, Ky. – The remains of U.S. Army Cpl. Charles K. Adam, 25, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, will be interred Sept. 25 in Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Spooner, Wisconsin. Services and interment are being coordinated by Stokes, Prock & Mundt Funeral Chapel.

In late 1941, Adam was a member of the 31st Infantry Regiment 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. Adam 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 held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.

According to prison camp and other historical records, Adam died Oct. 31, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 703.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Adam on Jan. 20, 2026.

For more information on DPAA’s efforts to locate and identify Adam, please visit: [https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4439953/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-adam-c/](https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4439953/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-adam-c/)

U.S. Army Human Resources Command’s Past Conflict Repatriations Branch plays a vital role in the process of identifying, locating and contacting subsequent generation family members of Soldiers missing or killed in action during WWII and the Korean War to positively identify previously undiscovered or unknown remains.

Media interested in covering and/or obtaining more information about the funeral and interment should contact Stokes, Prock & Mundt Funeral Chapel, 715-834-6411.

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