The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Alvin R. Scarborough, a World War II soldier from Mississippi, are set to be laid to rest in Carthage.
Scarborough, a native of Dossville, will be interred on March 29 at Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery. According to an official release, he was a member of the 454th Ordnance Company (Aviation) when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941.
During the conflict, Scarborough was among the thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members who were captured, forced to endure the grueling 65-mile Bataan Death March, and later interned in prisoner-of-war camps. He died in captivity on July 28, 1942, at the age of 22.
His remains were exhumed in 2018 from the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines for laboratory analysis and identification. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency officially accounted for Scarborough on September 21, 2023.