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On October 23, 2000, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) accounted for Private Carlyle Oscar Larson, missing from World War II.

Private Larson entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Minnesota and was a member of Company A, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. On August 17, 1942, members of the 2nd Raider Battalion participated in an attack on a Japanese seaplane base on the small island of Butaritari, Makin Atoll, in the Gilbert Islands. During the ensuing battle, Private Larson was killed. On August 19, he was buried on Butaritari by local villagers in a communal grave, and his remains were not returned to the U.S. after the war. In 1999, a CILHI investigative team traveled to Butaritari where they interviewed a villager who participated in Private Larson's burial and then was led to the gravesite. The site was excavated and the comingled remains were recovered and transferred to CILHI where analysts used forensic analysis to successfully identify Private Larson's remains.

Private Larson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Larson, Carlyle Oscar, Pvt