William Bomar is listed by NARA as KIA and not as a POW although combat records indicate he was briefly in enemy hands at the fall of Guam.

William Bomar is listed by NARA as KIA and not as a POW although combat records indicate he was briefly in enemy hands at the fall of Guam.

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Private First Class William Harold Burt, United States Marine Corps, was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Guam on 9 December 1941, and was held as a Prisoner of War until his death in captivity three days later.