More than 80 years after he died in a World War II prisoner of war camp, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, soldier is coming home. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. Joseph E. Lescaut, 21, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war in 1942, have been identified. In late 1941, Lescaut was a member of the 16th Bombardment Squadron, 27th Bombardment Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps, including Lescaut. According to prison camp and other historical records, Lescaut died July 26, 1942, and was buried along with other prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225. Following the war, American Graves Registration Service personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them, but only were able to identify three. The unidentified remains were then re-interred at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial as unknowns.In March 2018, the remains from Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis. In August, the team was able to positively identify Lescaut’s remains.Lescaut will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.