On August 27, 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of First Lieutenant Alexander J. Bonnyman Jr., missing from World War II.

First Lieutenant Bonnyman entered the U.S. Marine Corps from New Mexico and served in Company F, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. 1stLt Bonnyman was killed on November 22, 1943, while leading an assault on a Japanese stronghold on Betio Island during the invasion of the Tarawa Atoll. He was reportedly buried in a Division cemetery on Betio, but his body could not be found following the battle and he was reported missing. 1stLt Bonnyman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his personal acts of exceptional valor during the close quarters fighting on Betio. In 2015, the nongovernmental organization History Flight Inc. discovered a burial site on Betio and recovered human remains. These remains were brought to the DPAA laboratory in Hawaii where analysts were able to individually identify First Lieutenant Bonnyman from among them.

First Lieutenant Bonnyman is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Alexander Bonnyman, Jr