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Alexander Bonnyman Jr., 33, was killed during the 1943 Battle of Tarawa on the Japanese-held island of Beito. His remains were finally recovered in May. WWII Marine's Remains Found More than 1100 Marines lost their lives on Nov. 20-23, 1943 in the 76-hour battle of Tarawa in the South Pacific. One of them was 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient whose remains were unaccounted for. This long-missing hero is headed home. A group has uncovered the bodies of 36 U.S. Marines, including a Medal of Honor recipient, who were killed during a fierce fight more than 70 years ago in the remote Gilbert Islands. First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr. was among the men found in May in Cemetery 27 on the tiny Pacific Ocean atoll of Betio in Kiribati, according to Mark Noah, the director of History Flight, an organization which helps recover military members deemed missing in action. Noah notes that more than 1,000 Americans died fighting Japanese forces in Kiribati, in the 1943 Battle of Tarawa. The missing Marines were declared “unrecoverable” in 1949 by the Quartermaster General’s Office, according to the group. But a 10-year, multi-million dollar effort by History Flight culminated in the historic, and emotional, find in May. Among those on scene for the recovery was Bonnyman’s grandson, Clay Bonnyman Evans. “The location of Cemetery 27 has been one of Tarawa’s most challenging historical puzzles. History Flight’s discovery and recovery of the site is a testament to the tenacity and professionalism with which it has searched for all the missing Tarawa Marines,” Evans said. “Our family, including Lt. Bonnyman’s two surviving daughters — my mother and aunt — is deeply grateful to History Flight for accomplishing what nobody else could for more than seven decades.” None of the bodies have been officially identified, but DNA comparisons and other records will be used to do so. Bonnyman was one of three military men killed on Tarawa to earn a posthumous Medal of Honor, the military’s highest award for valor in action. He was the final one to be found. Bonnyman’s remains will be buried in his family plot in Knoxville, Tenn., where a public funeral scheduled in September will be held.