Next month, U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland’s remains will finally be returned home to Colorado, where they will be laid to rest in the same cemetery as his mother and…
Clarence and Lydia Strickland’s gravestone at Union Highland Cemetery in Florence, Colorado, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. The remains of their son, U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland, who died as a prisoner of war in World War II, have been officially identified and will be buried in the Florence cemetery this summer.
This Memorial Day, Strickland’s family is one of at least four to receive news in recent months that the bodies of their long-missing Colorado soldiers had been formally identified. The remains ofStrickland enlisted in April 1940, before the United States entered World War II.
“The summer was really bad in terms of death rate,” Kupsky said. “You had dozens of people dying per day and the way the burials worked is the Japanese would assign work details, and then prisoners, who themselves were in really bad shape, are carrying remains out and digging trenches to bury them in. …and they weren’t allowed to mark the graves, so it was very hard to keep track of who was buried where throughout this process.
“What was interesting, that I know about him now, that I didn’t know about him as I was growing up, was that from his letters, he was kind of a jokester,” VanBuskirk said. Following the end of World War II, personnel from the American Graves Registration Service exhumed the POWs buried at Cabanatuan and moved their remains to a U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, according to the Defense Department. The service examined the remains in 1947 but was only able to identify five of the POWs who had been buried in Common Grave 215. The rest were reburied as unknowns at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.
“They had made new dog tags for Clifford Strickland,” Kupsky said of the family. “And one of the family members gave me a hug and gave me my own dog tag of his.
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