Lost in 1944, WWII Soldier Will Be Laid to Rest at Eagle Point National Cemetery
In the Spring of 1942, Hoffmeyer was assigned to the Medical Department on the Bataan Peninsula, in the Philippines. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Empire of Japan in the Philippines until 1944 when the Japanese military moved POWs to Manila for transport to Japan aboard the transport ship Oryoku Maru. Unaware the allied POWs were on board, a U.S. carrier-borne aircraft attacked the Oryoku Maru, which eventually sank in Subic Bay. Hoffmeyer was then transported to Takao, Formosa, known today as Taiwan, aboard the Enoura Maru. The Japanese reported that Hoffmeyer died on Jan. 9, 1945, when U.S. forces attacked and sank the Enoura Maru.
Following the end of the war, the [American Graves Registration Command](https://www.med-dept.com/articles/quartermaster-graves-registration-service/) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel. In May 1946, AGRC Search and Recovery Team #9 exhumed a mass grave on a beach at Takao, Formosa, recovering 311 bodies. Following unsuccessful attempts to identify the remains, they were declared unidentifiable. They were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl in Honolulu.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Hoffmeyer on Oct. 10, 2025.
For more information on DPAA’s efforts to locate and identify Hoffmeyer, please visit: [https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4622070/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-hoffmeyer-h/](https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4622070/soldier-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-hoffmeyer-h/)
U.S. Army Human Resources Command’s Past Conflict Repatriations Branch plays a vital role in the process of identifying, locating and contacting subsequent generation family members of Soldiers missing or killed in action during WWII and the Korean War to positively identify previously undiscovered or unknown remains.
Media interested in covering and/or obtaining more information about the funeral and interment should contact Colliers Funeral Home, 314-298-1212.
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