Overview
- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency officially accounted for Bianchi on Aug. 11, 2025, with the identification made public after his family was briefed.
- His remains were among some 300 recovered in Taiwan in 1946 and later buried as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
- DPAA disinterred unknowns tied to the POW transport between October 2022 and July 2023 for new examinations, with DNA testing conducted by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner system.
- A rosette will be placed beside his name on the Manila American Cemetery’s Walls of the Missing, and he will be buried in New Ulm, Minnesota, in May 2026.
- Bianchi commanded Philippine Scouts in Bataan, earned the Medal of Honor for a 1942 assault, and was killed when USS Hornet–based aircraft struck the Enoura Maru on Jan. 9, 1945.