Remains Returned
Includes:
Vietnam Conflict
Mayaguez
Glomar Java Sea
Bay of Pigs

WWII/Korean/Cold War remains returned
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Recently Accounted-For...     DPAA

http://www.dpaa.mil/OurMissing/RecentlyAccountedFor.aspx

Note: Name may be noted above long before a Press Release is issued here:

http://www.dpaa.mil/NewsStories/Releases.aspx

REMAINS

I  hate the sound
the word in my ears
hate the meaning
the connotation
of pain and tears -
I hate the word
“Remains”.
Bits of bone
and shreds of cloth;
perhaps a piece of plane
physical remnants
of someone’s life -
“Beloved” was
his name;
Someone brave who died
amid the chaos
and the flames
someone young
someone strong
he is not
“remains”.

… and though he slumbers far away
he lives on in someone’s heart
as real today as yesterday
though they’ve been long apart…
he smiles out of
yearbooks
and grins from
picture frames
Oh, he is so much
more to her
than a simple word
“Remains”

©Christina

Some of these announced identification have been disputed or rejected ( * ) by family members. 
Even when I.D.s are officially rescinded (+), names remain on this list forever.
Group Burials (~)are noted.
Category 5 Remains (#) were considered UNRECOVERABLE.
% - announced 2016

P.O.W. NETWORK NOTES:

AMERICANS IDENTIFIED:   07/10/18

Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War

	Vietnam	Laos	Cambodia	China	Total
Original Missing	1,973	573	90	10	2,646
Repatriated and Identified	721	282	42	3	1048[1]
Remaining Missing	1,251	291	48	7	1,597

 

http://www.dpaa.mil/OurMissing/PastConflicts.aspx

DPAA, 03/28/2016:   The former number was based upon the DPMO dataset that had always been used as the published number.  This number was based upon three discrete datasets;  the U.S. Army Rosters of the Dead (All Services), The American Battle Monuments Commission List of the Missing, Memorialization Roster, and the Office of the Quartermaster General Memorial Division's Roster of Military Personnel Whose Remains were not Recovered.  As the new agency was formed we have engaged on a year and half long project to consolidate the data held by the accounting community.  Drawing upon 19 primary source lists and primary individual records; we have updated newly established identifications, eliminated duplicative records, erroneous entries, and information that demonstrates the individual was properly accounted for by the appropriate authorities before our Agency inherited those responsibilities.  The most significant changes are within the WWII data.  However, these corrections are less than half of one percent of the total list. 

MARCH 23 2016 STATS:

Unaccounted for From Past Conflicts
	WWII	Korean War	Vietnam War	Cold War	Iraq & Other Conflicts	Total
Total MIA	* 73,182	* 7,819	1,622	126	6	82,755

March 17, 2016

Unaccounted for From Past Conflicts
	WWII	Korean War	Vietnam War	Cold War	Iraq & Other Conflicts	Total
Total MIA	* 73,182	* 7,820	1,622	126	6	82,756

MARCH 3, 2016

Unaccounted for From Past Conflicts
	WWII	Korean War	Vietnam War	Cold War	Iraq & Other Conflicts	Total
Total MIA	* 73,515	* 7,824	1,622	126	6	83,093

* Reflects actual number still unaccounted-for. PMKOR database count is slightly higher due to several entries pending administrative review. 

* Due to limited or conflicting data concerning location of loss for approximately 1% of WWII missing, the above map does not show a total number equal to the list of WWII missing by name elsewhere on this site. As the data from our predecessor organizations is merged and validated all publicly available information will be promptly updated.

November 20, 2015:

Unaccounted for From Past Conflicts
	WWII	Korean War	Vietnam War	Cold War	Iraq & Other Conflicts	Total
Total MIA	* 73,515	* 7,830	1,624	126	6	83,101

Sept 3 2015 stats:

Unaccounted for From Past Conflicts
	WWII	Korean War	Vietnam War	Cold War	Iraq & Other Conflicts	Total
Total MIA	* 73,515	* 7,841	1,626	126	6	83,114

08/15/2015 stats:

Unaccounted for From Past Conflicts
	WWII	Korean War	Vietnam War	Cold War	Iraq & Other Conflicts	Total
Total MIA	* 73,515	* 7,842	1,627	126	6	83,110

 

 

07/09/2013
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/summary_statistics/
What happened to WWI?

 

A difference of 532 ??   Currently there are 73,681 missing from WWII, 7,995 missing from Korean War, 126 from Cold War, 1,664 missing from Vietnam War and 6 missing from the Iraq & Other Conflicts for a total of 83,432 missing action from WWII, Korea, Vietnam War, Iraq & other Conflicts.     06/2012 VVA A total of 74,213 U.S. service members remain missing from World War II, with 19,000 deemed recoverable. There are also 127 missing from the Cold War, 8,034 from the Korean War, and 1,723 from the Vietnam War, according to the command's latest figures.      02/14/2010 http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100214/NEWS01/2140381/Hawaii%E2%80%99s+Hickam+AFB+preparing+to+upgrade+lab+to+ID+war+dead The number of Americans announced by DPMO as returned and identified since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 is still 938.  Another 63 US personnel, recovered by the US and ID’d before the end of the war, bring the official total of remains repatriated from the Vietnam War to 1,001. .....NLF 08/26/2013

 

Still others have been ID’d, not yet announced by DPMO, perhaps due to delays in scheduling ID consultations with the primary-next-of-kin (PNOK).  The reality is that PNOK no longer retain decision-making capability before official ID, but the pretense has been retained.     

Due to circumstances as noted below - we question the validity of ANY of the numbers.

Some of these announced identification have been disputed or rejected (*) by family members. 

Even when I.D.s are officially recinded (+), names remain on this list forever.

Group Burials (~)are noted.

Category 5 Remains (#) were considered UNRECOVERABLE.

<I.D. DISPUTED 02/76, not listed by the USG - Robert Lee Luster>

** NOT LISTED BY USG when posted - Announced by family, not DoD

// - Remains were identified in 2000 - family did not receive remains for burial until 10/2003

[#] These individuals were "CATEGORY 5"

Categories of Degrees of Information
Enemy knowledge of POW/MIA

Category 5, Category unrelated to degree of enemy knowledge.

A. Individuals whose remains have been determined to be non-recoverable as outlined in Department of the Army Technical Manual 10-286, January 1964, section 39.

Category Data from Defense Intelligence Agency
January 20, 1982

AMERICANS IDENTIFIED SINCE 1994
WWII, KOREA, COLD WAR

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