AMERICANS IDENTIFIED SINCE 1989
WWII, KOREA, COLD WAR

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RECENTLY ACCOUNTED FOR

Name Rank   Conflict Service
Unit
Location Accounted
for Date
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
121 INFANTRY 8 DIVISION
GERMANY
12/20/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
858 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 492 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
FRANCE
12/19/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
22 MATERIALS SQUADRON 17 AIR BASE GROUP
UNITED STATES
12/19/2024
M/Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Heavy Mortar Company, 31st infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
12/18/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
HEADQUARTERS SQUADRON 17 AIR BASE GROUP
UNITED STATES
12/17/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 60 COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
12/16/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
565 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 389 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
12/10/2024
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
565 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 389 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
12/10/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
601 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 398 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
FRANCE
11/21/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
K Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
11/15/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
B Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
10/10/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
200 COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
10/09/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
HEADQUARTERS COMPANY PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT
PHILIPPINES
10/07/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
368 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 306 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
09/30/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
31 INFANTRY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
09/30/2024
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters Battery, 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery-Automatic Weapon Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
09/27/2024
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters Battery, 90th Field Artillery Battalion, 25th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
09/27/2024
STM3
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS West Virginia; UNITED STATES NAVY
UNITED STATES
09/27/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
36 INFANTRY 3 ARMORED DIVISION
GERMANY
09/26/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
M CO 3/31 REGT 7ID
KOREA, NORTH
09/26/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
93 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 19 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (VERY HEAVY)
JAPAN
09/25/2024
2nd Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
320 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 90 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
09/25/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
K Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division.
KOREA, NORTH
09/25/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 192 TANK BATTALION
PHILIPPINES
09/23/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
803 ENGINEERS BATTALION (AVIATION)
PHILIPPINES
09/23/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
93 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 19 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
PHILIPPINES
09/23/2024
2nd Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
320 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 90 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
09/20/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
774 TANK BATTALION
GERMANY
09/20/2024
SSG
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
320 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 90 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
09/20/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
642 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 409 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (LIGHT)
GERMANY
09/18/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
4 RANGER BATTALION
ITALY
09/18/2024
Pvt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
09/18/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
31 INFANTRY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
09/17/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
17 PURSUIT SQUADRON 24 PURSUIT GROUP
PHILIPPINES
09/16/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
D COMPANY, 708 AMPHIBIAN TANK BATTALION, 4 MARINE DIVISION (ATTACHED)
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
09/13/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
157 INFANTRY 45 DIVISION
FRANCE
09/13/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
4 RANGER BATTALION
ITALY
09/13/2024
WO1
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
68 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GP
VIETNAM
09/11/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - INFANTRY
PHILIPPINES
09/11/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
MARINE - UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
09/11/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
09/09/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
32 REGIMENT 3 ARMORED DIVISION
GERMANY
09/06/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Heavy Mortar Company, 31st infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
09/04/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
H CO 2/9 REGT 2ID
KOREA, SOUTH
08/27/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
19 QUARTERMASTER TRUCK COMPANY
PHILIPPINES
08/27/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
I Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
08/26/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
08/26/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
HEADQUARTERS SQUADRON 27 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (LIGHT)
PHILIPPINES
08/23/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
242 INFANTRY 42 DIVISION
FRANCE
08/21/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
708 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 447 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
08/21/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
2 OBSERVATION SQUADRON
PHILIPPINES
08/19/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
B Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
08/14/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
-
08/13/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 59 COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
08/12/2024
CEMP
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS CANOPUS (AS-9); UNITED STATES NAVY
PHILIPPINES
08/09/2024
Tec 5
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 409 SIGNAL COMPANY (AVIATION)
PHILIPPINES
08/07/2024
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
112 INFANTRY 28 DIVISION
GERMANY
08/06/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
17 PURSUIT SQUADRON 24 PURSUIT GROUP
PHILIPPINES
08/05/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
17 PURSUIT SQUADRON 24 PURSUIT GROUP
PHILIPPINES
08/02/2024
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
346 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 99 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
07/31/2024
Sfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
L Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
07/31/2024
SEA1
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS California; UNITED STATES NAVY
UNITED STATES
07/31/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
AIR CORPS
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
07/30/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 60 COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
07/19/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Company, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
06/26/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
D COMPANY, 708 AMPHIBIAN TANK BATTALION, 4 MARINE DIVISION (ATTACHED)
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
06/25/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
5307 COMPOSITE UNIT
BURMA
06/24/2024
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/24/2024
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/24/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/24/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/24/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/24/2024
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/24/2024
Sgt
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
DET 1 1043 RAD EVAL SQ BOLLING
LAOS
06/21/2024
MSgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
06/20/2024
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/20/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regimental Combat Team, 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
06/20/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
732 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 453 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/20/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
368 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 306 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
06/18/2024
PhM3c
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
UNITED STATES NAVY
KIRIBATI
06/18/2024
F1c
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS West Virginia; UNITED STATES NAVY
UNITED STATES
06/11/2024
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
28 MATERIALS SQUADRON 20 AIR BASE GROUP
PHILIPPINES
06/10/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
222 INFANTRY 42 DIVISION
FRANCE
06/07/2024
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
D Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
06/07/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
06/07/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
37 ENGINEERS COMBAT BATTALION
FRANCE
06/05/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
760 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 460 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
AUSTRIA
06/04/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
HEADQUARTERS SQUADRON 24 PURSUIT GROUP
PHILIPPINES
05/29/2024
F3c
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS West Virginia; UNITED STATES NAVY
UNITED STATES
05/29/2024
Lt
WORLD WAR II
NAVY RESERVE
NAVY TORPEDO SQUADRON 20 (VT-20), USS ENTERPRISE
PALAU
05/23/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
744 TANK BATTALION
FRANCE
05/20/2024
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
AIR CORPS
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
05/20/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
05/17/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
MARINE - UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
05/16/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
MARINE - UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
05/16/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
05/16/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
B Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
05/15/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
83 CHEMICAL BATTALION
ITALY
05/15/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
703 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 445 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
05/10/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
253 INFANTRY 63 DIVISION
GERMANY
05/10/2024
Sfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
C Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
05/10/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
899 TANK DESTROYER BATTALION
FRANCE
05/08/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
5307 COMPOSITE UNIT
BURMA
05/07/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
157 INFANTRY 45 DIVISION
FRANCE
05/06/2024
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
M Company, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
05/02/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
D Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
05/02/2024
Sfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
D Company, 1st Battalion, 9th infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
05/02/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
C COMPANY, 1 BATTALION, 25 MARINES, 4 MARINE DIVISION
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
05/01/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 194 TANK BATTALION
PHILIPPINES
04/29/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 200 COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
04/25/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
157 INFANTRY 45 DIVISION
FRANCE
04/25/2024
Maj
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
606 AIR COMMANDO SQD
LAOS
04/24/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
B Company 1st Battalion 19th Infantry Regiment 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
04/22/2024
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 429 SIGNAL COMPANY (AVIATION)
PHILIPPINES
04/17/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
MARINE CORPS RESERVE
USMCR, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division
JAPAN
04/15/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
C Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
04/08/2024
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Battery 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery-Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
04/08/2024
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
I Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
04/05/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
28 MATERIEL SQUADRON 20 AIR BASE GROUP
PHILIPPINES
04/03/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
329 INFANTRY 83 DIVISION
LUXEMBOURG
04/02/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
31 INFANTRY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
04/01/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
C Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
03/26/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 803 ENGINEERS BATTALION (AVIATION)
PHILIPPINES
03/26/2024
Cox
WORLD WAR II
NAVY RESERVE
Glennon; UNITED STATES NAVY RESERVE
FRANCE
03/22/2024
T/5
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
318 INFANTRY 80 DIVISION
GERMANY
03/20/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
34 PURSUIT SQUADRON 24 PURSUIT GROUP
PHILIPPINES
03/20/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
7 INFANTRY 3 DIVISION
ITALY
03/19/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
30 INFANTRY 3 DIVISION
ITALY
03/14/2024
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
436 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 7 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
BURMA
03/14/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
318 INFANTRY 80 DIVISION
GERMANY
03/13/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
157 INFANTRY 45 DIVISION
FRANCE
03/01/2024
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
H Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
02/27/2024
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
348 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 99 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
02/12/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
MARINE - UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
KIRIBATI
02/08/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
366 INFANTRY REGIMENT
ITALY
02/02/2024
Cpl
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
128 INFANTRY 32 DIVISION
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
02/02/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
318 INFANTRY 80 DIVISION
GERMANY
01/17/2024
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Heavy Mortar Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
01/10/2024
PFC
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
180 INFANTRY 45 DIVISION
FRANCE
01/05/2024
M/Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Battery, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
12/26/2023
RM2
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
NAVY - UNITED STATES NAVY
PHILIPPINES
12/26/2023
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
700 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 445 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
GERMANY
12/26/2023

List posted 12/31/2024

Some names in articles/press releases below were NOT posted to the DPAA "list" yet when published.

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SOME HIGHLIGHTS NOTE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN HEADLINES ("captured")  AND KNOWN ("MIA") STATUS.

 
A 25-year-old Milwaukee airman, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, has been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, a military office responsible for recovering and identifying the remains of those killed in conflicts ...
December 26, 2024
Wed Dec 25, 2024 03:40 AM EST

A Russian-born U.S. citizen who was already behind bars in Russia on a bribery conviction has been handed a second sentence for espionage.

Eugene Spector was sentenced to a new 15-year term for his espionage conviction, according to Russian news agencies. Spector was born and raised in Leningrad, Russia, but later moved to the U.S. and became a citizen.

Moscow court brought espionage charges against Spector in August of last year, although details surrounding the case were not made publicly available....

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Tech. Sgt. Joseph R. Moore, 28, killed during World War II, ...
Once they decided to cross the bridge, they would never be permitted to return, even if they later had second thoughts. The last time the bridge was ...

 
Subsequently, local POW/MIA support groups successfully lobbied to repurpose the original monument for prisoners of war and military personnel missing ...
December 24, 2024

 
 

 
And there are organizations like America's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which work to find and identify those who were lost. 2024 ...
December 23, 2024
on Tuesday afternoon examines a POW/MIA bracelet her employee Sam DuVall found among the rubble of 1500 N. Memorial Drive. The name on the bracelet is ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. 1st Class David C....
December 21, 2024
He was identified using dental and anthropological analysis, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. Hansen was captured and died as a prisoner of ...

 
According to the POW network, Dutch soldiers were captured in Indonesia and engaged in labor for the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway ...
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is pushing for an investigation into the whereabouts of the remains of an Army pilot who went missing more ...
... POW Camp #1. Calvi's remains were identified in September.The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. For more than 80 years, Bruce Calvi kept the ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. 1st Class David C. Hansen was accounted for on Aug. 23 ...
December 20, 2024
Our team consisted of three Special Forces soldiers, a naval intelligence senior chief, a second-class Navy Seal petty officer, and multiple ...

 
... POW/MIA Accountability Agency. The decision to include him was made over three years ago, he said. His expertise would allow the team to locate ...
... Philippines during World War II was accounted for earlier this year, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. 1st Class David C. Hansen, 25, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ...
December 24, 2024
 
 
 
And there are organizations like America's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which work to find and identify those who were lost. 2024 ...
 
... old Virginian sailor killed in a World War II attack more than 80 years ago, the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.
 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He said the decision to include him was made over three years ago. His expertise would allow the team to locate ...
12/16/2024

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In 1953, North Korea turned over remains, which were buried as unknown. In 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began using DNA to identify the ...
Trudeau as a baby in his mother's arms at the first communion ceremony for his sister Barbara. Photo Provided By Amy Troan. Deep sea ...
He became the first Black seaman to receive the Navy Cross for valor, and a Navy recruiting poster featured him with the slogan, “above and beyond the ...
It wasn't until the advances made through the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the USS Oklahoma Project launched in 2015, which aimed ...

 

 
 

 
In the wake of the attack, 15 Medals of Honor, 51 Navy Crosses, 53 Silver Stars, four Navy and Marine Corps Medals, one Distinguished Flying Cross ...

 

 
December 8, 2024
Meanwhile, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) continues its diligent efforts to identify remains of service members from various ...

 
Scientists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency also used anthropological analysis and circumstantial evidence to identify Kovaleski.

December 7, 2024
The U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that the remains of U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arthur W. Crossland Jr. were ...
The Navy sailor was one of the last sailors killed on the USS Oklahoma who had not been accounted for. On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Defense POW/MIA ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which in fiscal year 2023 had a budget of $150 million, has identified, and in many cases returned to ...
In 2015, the remains were again exhumed, and using the latest DNA and other scientific means, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) was able to ...
"Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and modern forensic techniques, over 300 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma ...
Pittis was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Mar. 20, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in September 2022 from the U.S. ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced: "U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, [originally] of Newcastle, England, killed during World ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which in fiscal year 2023 had a budget of $150 million, has identified,. Newspapers in English · Newspapers ...

 
 

 
U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He ...
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Albert Trudeau was a 22-year-old Bergen County resident when he was killed fighting the Vietnam War in 1971. After 53 years, The Defense POW/MIA ...

 

 
 

 
Scientists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used DNA to identify Kovaleski's remains.

 
Earlier this week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced: "U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, [originally] of Newcastle ...
December 6, 2024
The path to a once-in-a-lifetime Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) mission was anything but easy for U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. China ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Arthur W. Crossland Jr., 19, of Columbia, South Carolina, who was killed during World War II, ...

... , News and Stories from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Public Affairs Office and External Relations.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Friday that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arthur W. Crossland Jr. had been accounted for, and his ...

 
After 53 years, The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Wednesday, Dec. 4, they had finally found Trudeau's remains.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arthur W. Crossland Jr, 19, of Columbia, South Carolina ...

 
... POW-MIA discussions with North Korea. There are signs this may be back on the table. Of the "probable" remains recovered. earlier, 88 have been ...

 
(WACH) — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arthur W. Crossland Jr., 19, of Columbia ...

Albert Trudeau was a 22-year-old Teaneck resident when he was killed fighting the Vietnam War in 1971.After 53 years, The Defense POW/MIA ...

 

 
 

 
U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 

 
 

 
U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward S. Kovaleski was 25 years old when his plane crashed in Austria in 1945, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced the identification of U.S. Army Corporal Waymon Slaten, more than seven.
In 2017, researchers with the POW/MIA Accounting Agency investigated a suspected crash site in Austria following a lead from an independent researcher ...
Fireman Second Class William Kubinec, who died when the USS West Virginia sank at Pearl Harbor in 1941, was identified in 2019 by the Defense POW/MIA
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward S. Kovaleski, 25, of Southbridge, Massachusetts ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, of Newcastle, England, ...

 
A waist gunner who was killed while onboard a B-24H in World War II is finally back home in Chattanooga.The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...

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Japan to Exhume Remains of About 1,000 WWII Dead on Peleliu

 

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Hawaii State Archive to Digitize Pearl Harbor Memorial Records

December 5, 2024
Once an unknown has been disinterred from the cemetery and transferred to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's laboratory, its scientists conduct ...

 

December 5, 2024

... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. DPAA is tasked with recovering American service members missing in action and had played a key role in the recovery of ...

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December 3, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency was able to finally to identify X-256 as Slaten on Aug. 14. Details of Slaten's death are not known. He was
 
However, advancements in forensic science and DNA analysis led the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to begin the process of identifying these unknown ...
He certainly deserved the full military honors- the horse-drawn caisson, the band, even a flyover. That's because this was Medal of Honor recipient Lt ...

 
Other notable interments at the cemetery include Indian Wars Medal of Honor recipient James Morris, and boxing legend Bob “The Deputy Sheriff” Foster.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency was able to finally to identify X-256 as Slaten on Aug. 14. Details of Slaten's death are not known. He was


... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The agency reports he served in the 253rd Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division. On April 6, 1945, the 63rd ...

 
 

 
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the battle was so brutal that his body could not be recovered at the time. After a year, the U.S. ...
Bishop, of Centralia, was laid to rest on May 23 after his remains were identified using DNA analysis by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
December 2, 2024
CPL John Brooks Miller. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced earlier this year, October 17, 2024, that U.S. Army Cpl. John ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) scientific recovery experts, discuss ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency's mission is to provide the fullest ...

 
With that identification, the POW/MIA Account Agency quietly began the solemn duty of remains recovery; however, external factors delayed recovery ...

 

 
 

 
Sue MacPherson, who hung out with Holton as a teenager, got a silver POW-MIA bracelet with his name on it in 1972. The military presumed him dead in ...
I contacted her, and the rest is history. How Did You Get Involved With the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency? Before I joined the Air Force, I would ...

 
But on Jan. 13, Slaten's remains will finally be laid to rest in his hometown after they were recently identified by the U.S. Defense POW/MIA ...
December 1, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. Scott, a Passaic resident, was operating an aircraft in Romania on Aug. 1, 1943, when it was hit by a bomb near ...

 
POWs (one of the most famous of whom was future-Senator John McCain) ... As of 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) listed 1,244 ...
In 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterred the remains for laboratory analysis. A year later, they were identified as Rudd through ...
November 30, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Roy and several other airmen were aboard the B-24H Liberator “Little Joe” on a bombing mission to Brunswick, Germany on ...

 

 

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November 29, 2024
... the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Tuesday.
 

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Roy and several other airmen were aboard the B-24H Liberator "Little Joe" on a bombing mission to Brunswick, Germany on ...
November 28, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Cpl. Waymon Slaten, 18, of Arab, was killed during the Korean War and accounted ...
November 27, 2024
Sergeant Sanford G. Roy's remains were accounted for June 20, 2024. Roy died during WWII at the age of 31. According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...

 
Waymon Slaten, an 18-year-old from Arab, who was killed during the Korean War, has been accounted for 74 years after his death, the Defense POW/MIA ...
30, 1950 — 13 months and five days after he enlisted. According to a press release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of U.S. ...

 
Charles Beaty, who was positively identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on April 5, 2024. Dr. John Byrd, DPAA director of scientific ...

 
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) / Sgt. Roy Sanford and other crew members sit atop "Little Joe", a B-24H Liberator bomber, during World War ...
PASSAIC, NJ — A fallen World War II soldier from North Jersey will finally be laid to rest in his home state, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
... POW · Korean War soldier identified as Mullins man (Credit: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency · Image icon. 3. VIEW ALL PHOTOS. View All Photos.
... killed in World War II, were identified and officially accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
November 20, 2024
Kelly Jr.'s recovery, made by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), follows a landmark underwater recovery operation in Papua New Guinea.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) previously announced U.S. Army Cpl. John B. Miller, 22, of Mullins, South Carolina, killed during the ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Paul E. Hoots, 25, killed during the Korean War, was accounted ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency · Korean War soldier identified as Mullins man{ } (Credit: Defense POW · Image icon. 3. VIEW ALL PHOTOS. View All ...
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA.) In March 1944, Kelly was a bombardier deployed on a ship called "Heaven Can Wait" stationed on the northern ...
Skip to main content (Press Enter). Toggle navigation. Home Logo: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Defense POW/MIA ...

 
Project Recover began working with the U.S. military after a 2015 restructuring of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command which became the current-day ...

 
 Remains of 21-year-old WWII aviator recovered from sunken bomber | Stars and Stripes

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According to historical records, Strickland died a POW on July 29, 1942. ... Strickland was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Dec.
November 19, 2024
(Photo via the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency​. ) PASSAIC, NJ — A fallen World War II soldier from North Jersey will finally be laid to rest in his ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of 21-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William Scott. Scott's aircraft was ...

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Because of the intensity of the battle, his fellow soldiers couldn't recover his body, the agency said. Zarifian ...
November 18, 2024
In honor of Veterans Day, St. Sabina held a POW-MIA ceremony remembering the more than 80000 missing U.S. soldiers. The ceremony was complete with ...

 
His family told WCNC Charlotte the discovery of his remains brings them closure they never thought they'd have. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
November 19, 2024
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday that 25-year-old U.S. Army Private James S. Mitchell of Chico, California ...
November 19, 2024
“Thank goodness for the kindness of the German people for burying him intact and with dignity,” Zarifian's obituary reads. The Defense POW/MIA ...

 
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William Scott, who was killed in the war at the age of 21, were identified in 2022, the Defense POW/MIA ...
November 18, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Private Jacob Gutterman, 24, of New York City, who was captured and ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Private James S. Mitchell, 25, of Chico, California, who was captured ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA.) (Shutterstock). LIVERMORE, CA — A Livermore man will finally get a proper burial over 80 years after he was ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said last week. Bernard J. calvi, 23, a Us Army Air Force private, was one of thousands of Us and Filipino service ...
He was laid to rest Nov. 18 with full military honors at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon. ... Medal of Honor to VFMA Grad, WWII Hero. August 25, 2020.
His remains, found off Papua New Guinea's coast, have now been identified, bringing closure to his family after a long search by the Defense POW/MIA ...

 
The announcement of 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr.'s recovery, made by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), follows a landmark underwater ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William Scott, 21, of Passaic, New Jersey, ...
In April 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified Beaty among those remains, and on Friday, they were flown from Hawaii to Little ...

 

 
 

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency partnered with nonprofit, Project Recover, to positively identify the remains of 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, a ...
Zarifian was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on May 10, 2024 after his remains were discovered at a Buchhof construction ...
The Navy destroyer was sunk in 1942 during World War II, after facing down overwhelming odds and fighting a pitched battle.

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Kelly was assigned to the 320th Bombardment Squadron, 90th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force before he was ...
November 17, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency to recover crew remains from the wreck site. This was the deepest underwater MIA recovery effort ever undertaken by the ..
November 17, 2024
He praised the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), the Navy and Project Recover, the nonprofit that used its underwater resources to find the ...

 
I never had a chance to meet my Uncle David — he was about 18 years old when he died, during World War II, when the destroyer ship on which he was ...
November 16, 2024
... , Nov., News and Stories from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Public Affairs Office and External Relations.

 
Corporal Godwin was reported MIA on July 20, 1950, after he was ... So far in 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced it ...
November 16, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that a first-class United States Army private, who was captured and ...

 

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. In July 2018, DPAA historians and anthropologists proposed a plan to identify the 652 Korean War unknown burials from ...
James W. Swartz of Webberville, Michigan, was accounted for on August 2, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced. Captured following the ...
So, when the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency firmly established the remains as T. Sgt. Moss, the agency's Sgt. Josh Buckner ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Gordon N. Larson, 22, of Seattle, who was captured and ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Friday that Sgt was identified as 20-year-old Yuen Hop. Hop's family was recently notified ...

Lacie Hester, 494th Fighter Squadron F-15E weapon systems operator, is the the first woman airman in the Air Force to receive the Silver Star.
November 15, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), a Department of Defense agency tasked with locating and identifying missing American service members ...

 
Historians at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency reported that on Nov. 30, 1950, he was reported killed in action during the fighting ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop, 20, of Sebastopol, California, ...
He was officially ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr., 21, of Livermore, California, ...

 
He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Aug. 6, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in August 2018 from the Ardennes ...

 
Harris was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency June 20, 2024. The Past Conflict Repatriations Branch, under the Army Casualty ...

 
 

 
... World War II and died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Walter L. Clark, 28, of Santa Rosa, California, who was captured ...

 

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula and Corregidor Island by May 1942. Swartz, along with ...

 
... MIA Sgt. Frank Ayala Velasco to surviving family members during a ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency · VetsSyndicated. Featured Image Photo Credit ...
November 14, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the organization announced Thursday. U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, who was captured and died as a ...

 
WASHINGTON — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, of Webberville ...
2, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, of Webberville, according to a news release ...
The events included an opening ceremony, a POW/MIA remembrance service, and a Veterans Sunrise Service. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m., Branson ...

 
... accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Aug. 2, the organization announced Thursday. In 1942, Swartz was a member […]

 
November 14, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, of Webberville, Michigan, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in April 2019 exhumed those remains as part of the Cabanatuan Project and sent them to the agency's laboratory ...

 
... in Cabanatuan POW Camp #1, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Wednesday.

 
A Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet conducts a POW/MIA table ceremony, in honor of prisoners of war and those missing in action, ...
November 14, 2024
Beaty was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency April 5, 2024, after North Korea returned his remains in the summer of 2018 for ...

 
But last month the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA., a Defense Department agency that tries to find and identify the bodies of service ...
November 13, 2024

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release. Intense fighting ensued and continued until the surrender of Bataan peninsula and Corregidor ...

 
According to historical records, Seiff died a POW Nov. 14, 1942, at age 23. He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Dec. 18 ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Bernard J. Calvi, 23, of North Adams, was a ...

 
Cocco was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency May 15, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in March 2022 from Sicily-Rome ...
1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. That grave and others at the camp were exhumed by the American Graves Registration ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, of North Adams, ...

 
The ceremony began with the POW/MIA recognition in which the crowd's attention is turned to a table for one on the edge of the stage. This table ...
November 13, 2024
In 2015, The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) founded the USS Oklahoma Project, a disinterment and identification project attempting to ...

 

 
 

 
Jonathan Wilson said the transition from the Navy SEALS to civilian life was one of the hardest things he's ever done. He called it a dark period ...

 

 
 

 
According to the most recent report on veteran suicide from the VA, vets comprise about 14% of all suicides in the US, despite only making up ...
November 12, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPPA. Previously, Mahoney had been known ...
November 12, 2024
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency · ✓ ✗ Subscribe. 30. After its establishment more than two centuries ago, the U.S. military has been involved in ...

 
But last month the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA, a Defense Department agency that tries to find and identify the bodies of service ...
November 11, 2024
The Port Deposit, Maryland-native, just three weeks past his 24th birthday at the time, died during a World War II air battle over central Germany ...

 
 

 
Sutherlin woman Linda Moreau holds the last photograph ever taken of her older brother, Mickey Wilson, before he died during the Vietnam War in 1973.
Major San Francisco is MIA after his F-4 was shot down in Vietnam in 1968. Family of the Kennewick High, Washington, grad want him found.

 
Army Master Sgt. Wallace Simmons Jr., 36, served as a member of Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 7th ...

 

 
 

 
As the US marks Veterans Day, the story of a young soldier finally being returned home has been shared.
Chris Deutsch is the University of Missouri DPAA research partner fellow and a historian at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in 2025.

Next spring — 100 years after his birth — Mahoney will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. More than 72,000 Americans ...
 
November 14, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced James Swartz of Webberville, was officially accounted for in August.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Ralph L. Mourer, 23, of Wichita, Kansas, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. ( ...

 
 
NOVEMBER 14, 2024 – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosted a cake cutting ceremony honoring the United States Marine Corps' 249th Birthday ...

 

 
Branson's marketing strategy will take a fresh turn and give voice to Branson's storytellers, according to Heather Hermen, chief marketing and ...
November 14, 2024
On Aug. 2, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James W. Swartz, 21, of Webberville, according to a news ...
November 14, 2024
 
Mary Schantag, POW Network chairman, gave opening remarks and honored POW/MIA families and dignitaries; Jeanne Cooper, POW Network registered ...
November 10, 2024
She was on the founding board of the National League of Families and was at the forefront of seeking to bring Bruce and other MIA and POW servicemen ...
November 9, 2024
We also want to thank William Cox and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency , as well as, our Army Representative, Sergeant First Class Anita ...

 

 
 

 
6, 1950, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Simmons was a member of the Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery ...
November 9, 2024
Scientists with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, and Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, are ...

 
Heather Atherton, POW/MIA Advocate and Researcher for Baron 52 and the Matejov Family. Heather has been a public and media relations consultant ...
November 8, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Washington recently announced that the remains of U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey were identified on Sept ...

 

 
 

 
Wallace Simmons Jr., 36, of Indianapolis was killed in action on Dec. 6, 1950, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Simmons ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) tested the DNA against those they collected from the families of missing service members, finding a ...
Army Master Sgt. Wallace Simmons Jr., 36, of Indianapolis was killed in action on Dec. 6, 1950, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ( ...
November 8, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Master Sgt. Wallace Simmons Jr., 36, of Indianapolis, Indiana, ...

 

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-11-05/philippines-ww2-pow-camp-15751409.html

Restoration work lags at former POW camp where US troops were burned, shot in WWII | Stars and Stripes

November 7, 2024
Linnington has more than 35 years of military experience and was the first permanent director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). A ...

 
When I was in middle school, some of my classmates began wearing POW bracelets. ... bracelet bearing the name Colonel Norman Gaddis, and the date ...
November 6, 2024
2 Union soldiers posthumously receive Medal of Honor. Among them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as Andersonville. Several were ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Christopher Phelps, and officials from the U.S. MIA office in Hanoi (DET2). Representing Vietnam were leaders of ...
November 6, 2024
More for You. Internet Providers Hate When You Do This, But It's Not Illegal. WifiBlast. Internet Providers Hate ...

 
Over the course of the next seven years the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, whose primary role is to search for US military personnel missing ...
November 5, 2024
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Nov. 4, 2024 | 17:26. “Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. Bernard J. Curran, 20, of Lowell, Massachusetts, ...
November 5, 2024
A black flag reads “POW-MIA You Are Not Forgotten” in white lettering. The National League of POW/MIA Families flag flies over an Air Force base in ...

 

 
 

 
Organizers decided then Chris Balcom had to be on the next flight they took to D.C, and Shea had to be there. “She has been wearing your dad's POW-MIA ...
November 5, 2024

US soldier, 23, injured on Gaza pier in May dies: report

https://nypost.com/2024/11/04/us-news/us-soldier-injured-on-gaza-pier-in-may-dies-report/--

 

 
 

 
“I had just recently found this POW/MIA bracelet that I had from 1970. So I thought, 'I'm going to stop in and look at the POW Museum and talk to ...
November 4, 2024
A special event today at Jefferson Barracks POW and MIA museum honoring Vietnam veteran Colonel John Clark. Author: ksdk.com.

 
John Herrick. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency photo. Plans are still coalescing to repatriate a Bushong soldier killed during the ...
November 2, 2024
The mission for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to never leave a fallen American behind.

 

 
 

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency believes roughly 38,000 of those members are able to be recovered. Advertisement. Just over 460 of the 81,000 ...

 
 

 
Seek help. Don't be embarrassed. Don't be ashamed.” -- The plea to military veterans and families from the father of an East Tennessee Marine who ...
November 1, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday that Army Corporal Howard Godwin Jr., 22, of Grafton, West Virginia, killed during the ...

 
Herrick was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Aug. 21, 2023, after his remains were exhumed in summer 2021 from Normandy ...

 
 

 
Never leave a fallen American behind. That's the driving force behind the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency. It's a government agency with a ...
11/06/2024

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/05/remains-of-nearly-30-civil-war-veterans-found-funeral-homes-storage-are-laid-rest.html?ESRC=eb_241106.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20241106

Remains of Nearly 30 Civil War Veterans Found in a Funeral Home's Storage Are Laid to Rest

11/04/2024

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/03/us-says-iranian-american-held-iran-tensions-high-following-israeli-attack-country.html?ESRC=eb_241104.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20241104

US Says Iranian-American Held in Iran as Tensions High Following Israeli Attack on Country

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/01/russia-sentences-former-us-consulate-worker-nearly-5-years-prison.html?ESRC=eb_241104.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20241104

Russia Sentences Former US Consulate Worker to Nearly 5 Years in Prison

 

CC: from Orson Swindle......

Navy pilot who was second-longest held US prisoner of war in line to receive Congressional Gold Medal

 By LINDA F. HERSEY STARS AND STRIPES • October 25, 2024
 

Congressional Gold Medal Award Article

 

It was a Battle Article Interview

November 2, 2024
 
 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) historians and anthropologists were able to identify 652 Korean War unknown burials in 2019, one of ...
On October 9, 2024 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) made the following press announcement from Washinton DC: Merchant Marine Wiper Elvis N ...
October 29, 2024
Veterans and community members gathered on National POW/MIA Recognition Day to hear from the longest-held enlisted prisoner of war in United ...
 

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Agency (DPAA) said in a release Thursday. "With no record of German forces capturing Mahoney, and no remains recovered, the War Department ...
October 26, 2024
As his official Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency profile says, he died during the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea on November 30, 1942, and was ...

 
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency · ✓ ✗ Subscribe. 29. A U.S. Navy Chaplain offers condolences to the family of U.S. Navy Fireman 3rd Class Harry R ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says Army PFC Clem McDuffie was identified on August 26th.
U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. In 1946, the American Graves Registration Command began ...
October 25, 2024

 
 

 
U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was assigned to an anti-tank company in Europe during the war, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news ...

 

 
Groh was identified in July 2021 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. "In April, 1947, a set of remains was recovered from the area where PFC ...

Fast forward to April of this year when Ison received an email from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) looking for volunteers for a ...

Using DNA from surviving relatives, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) confirmed Ferguson's identity on Sept. 30, 2019, bringing his ...

 
A Kingwood man whose plane was shot down during World War II has been accounted for after 79 years, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Brown and eight other crew members perished in the crash, but one airmen, Salvatore Dalterio, managed to survive after ...

 
On October 9, 2024 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) made the following press announcement from Washinton DC: Merchant Marine 10/24/2024Wiper ...
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Bruce H. Brown was assigned to ... The Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Agency is part of the ...

 

 
 

 
In 2022, the defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency conducted more research, finally identifying Mahoney in May 2024. His remains will be buried at the ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today, Thursday, October 24th, that U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney, 19, of Chicago, ...
October 24, 2024
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced todaythat the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the ...

 
Mahoney was identified. DNA Technology Unravels a Decades-Old Mystery The mtDNA, Y-STR, and auSTR were used by researchers from the Defense POW/MIA ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney, 19, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during ...
October 23, 2024
In 2018, as part of the Korean War Disinterment Project, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency used dental, anthropological and mitochondrial DNA ...

 

 
 

 
October 24, 2024
 
For the past seven years, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Kelly McKeague has led the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), the organization within ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. announced Wednesdaythat the remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of Richmond, Indiana, were ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwreck-hunters-find-lost-world-war-ii-era-submarine-that-vanished-with-64-crew-members-onboard-180985285/

Shipwreck Hunters Find Lost World War II-Era Submarine That Vanished With 64  Crew Members Onboard | Smithsonian
Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:35:39 -0500

 

October 22, 2024
According to a release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Walker was believed to have lost his life while piloting the tank when ...
October 21, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Gordon N. Larson, who was captured and died as a ...

 
In 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed remains from Unknown X-83 in the Florence American Cemetery for transport back the United ...

 
In 2015, the Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency and. Department of Veterans Affairs established the USS Oklahoma Project to dig out unidentified ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13963991/Navy-veteran-faces-years-Dubai-prison-accused-trafficking-prescription-medication.html
 

 


Ch
arles Wimberly, 52, went on holiday in the United Arab Emirates with friends, but was stopped at security on his way home to Georgia and thrown in jail.
Now he will wait months for a court date.

 

 

 

 

October 20, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. Bernard J. Curran, 20, a US Army Air Force private, was one of thousands of US and Filipino service members who ...

 
Lora Parrish, left, and sister April McKinnon hold on to mementos of Everett Titterington's life, including an American flag with 48 stars and a ...
October 19, 2024
Decades later in 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed those remains as part of The Cabanatuan Project, sending them to a labratory ...

 
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) worked alongside caretakers of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP) to ...
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward Dale Johnson, 24, who was born at Hurdsfield and listed New Rockford as his ...
October 18, 2024
Through a mission by the U. S. Navy, Department of Defense and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Seaman First Class Joe R.

 
Ortiz was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Aug. 10, 2023, after his remains were exhumed July 2018, from the National ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Capture.PNG. By: Erin Rosas. Posted 9 minutes ago. and last updated 9 minutes ago. FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Office of ...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/17/navy-finds-wreckage-of-fighter-jet-crashed-during-training-washington-state.html?ESRC=eb_241018.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20241018
 

Navy Finds Wreckage of Fighter Jet that Crashed During Training in Washington State

 ...The status of the crew was unknown. The Navy plans to deploy search teams into the remote area that is not accessible by motorized vehicles. Snow is expected in the Cascades through the weekend.

Navy officials said they didn't know if the two crew members managed to eject before the crash, which remains under investigation....

October 17, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Warrant Officer Albert R. Trudeau, killed during the Vietnam War, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. William W. Bradner, who was captured and died as ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Thursday, Seaman 1st Class (S1c) Aaron L. McMurtrey, 27, of Durant, Oklahoma killed ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterred the unknown remains in March 2021 as part of the Korean War disinterment project. Scientists ...

 
Woo was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency March 13, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in September 2022 from the North ...
October 16, 2024
Seiferheld was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Feb. 12, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in 2018 from the Florence ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Clem D. McDuffie, 18, of Hamlet, North Carolina, ...

 
Bode was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Dec. 26, 2023, after his remains were exhumed in May 2022 from the North African ...

 
Sluder was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Sept. 27, 2023, after his remains were exhumed in Oct. 2019 from the National ...

 
 

 
“We are here for our fallen, and when you bring home a POW or an MIA, that's just an extra special time. This gentleman has waited a long time to come ...
October 15, 2024

 
 

 
The solider was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on May 10, 2024 after his remains were exhumed in Aug. 2017 from the ...

 
Ferguson was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on September 30, 2019, after his remains were exhumed on August 28, 2017, from ...
Skaar was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency June 7, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in August 2022 from Ardennes ...

 
... (POW/MIA) flag. "This is the second time someone has done this to the flag," Gabriel tells us. "Last time, I paid to fix it, with Mike Hinton ...
Cash died a prisoner of war July 16, 1942, at age 20. He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency April 3, 2024, after his remains ...
Groh was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency July 9, 2021, after his remains were exhumed in April 2019 from the Ardennes ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. David E. Hardy, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean ...

 
... families to search for old documents and memorabilia found in the Vietnam War and send the items to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).

 
Pictured (left to right) just seconds after uncovering a new POW/MIA chair in the front foyer of Rushville Elks Lodge 1307 are Past Exalted Ruler ...

 
October 14, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced in a press release Thursday that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Private Robert W. Cash ...

 
 

 
Vorel was a member of ...

 
 

 
... (POWs) and swore they had seen Ramos. ... For more details on Sergeant Ramos' story from the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, a press ...

 
Wilson's remains were initially unidentified until 2018 when he was identified by the POW-MIA Accounting Agency. Wilson, who was 19-years-old, was ...

 

 
 

 
He died of illness on April 24, 1951, at POW Camp 5 near Pyoktong, North Korea at the age of 23. ... The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the ...
October 13, 2024
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) or the POW/MIA Foundation in Sergeant Robert ...

 
According to the U.S. Army Human Resources, the remains of Army Cpl. Gerald “Jerry” N. Wilson will be buried at Parrack Grove Cemetery in Macks ...
October 11, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Manuel Trujillo, 22, of Santa Fe, was captured and killed by Japanese forces. The capture happened ...

 
Israel Ramos Obituary The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on September 10, 2024 that U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Israel Ramos, 18, ...
October 11, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified 135 service members missing from World II, 33 from the Korean War and four from the Vietnam War ...

 
He remained unaccounted for until Dec. 5, 2023, when his remains were finally identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. ... bracelet that his ...

 

 
 

 
“She has been wearing your dad's POW-MIA bracelet for 55 years,” organizer Joe Fry said between tears. “What are the chances, Chris?” Shea said ...
October 11, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) posted Sept. 5 in a press release that “U.S. Army Pvt. Robert L. Skaar, 18, of La Crosse, Wis ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) posted Sept. 5, 2024, in a press release that “U.S. Army Pvt. Robert L. Skaar, 18, of La Crosse, Wis ...

 
... POW/MIA Recovery Operations. In this role, he served as the liaison between the Army and the League of Families, whose mission was locating and ...
October 10, 2024
Fast forward to April of this year when Ison received an email from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) looking for volunteers for a mission ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Leon R. Karwacki, killed during World War II, ...

 
“This is a miracle,” said Dillon, Jerele's primary next of kin, about the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's (DPAA) accounting for Jerele's remains.

 
... families whoes loved ones are missing from the war in Vietnam. I first met Steve Hiller at a POW/MIA League of Families meeting in Washington, D.C..

 
Larry R. Kilpatrick, who disappeared in June 1972, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday, per CBS News. The 28-year-old from ...

 
The family would like to thank the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency for their tireless efforts to identify Lt. Ferguson's remains. We would also ...

 
 

 
After more than seven decades, Korean War soldier finally returns home to Macks Creek
“We are here for our fallen, and when you bring home a POW or an MIA, that's just an extra special time. This gentleman has waited a long time to come ...
October 15, 2024

 
 

 
Kentucky solider killed in Korean War identified, set for burial 70 years after death - WDRB
The solider was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on May 10, 2024 after his remains were exhumed in Aug. 2017 from the ...

 
Remains of WWII soldier to be buried in Philip - Dakota News Now
Ferguson was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on September 30, 2019, after his remains were exhumed on August 28, 2017, from ...
Remains of World War II Soldier to be buried in La Crosse, Wisconsin - DVIDS
Skaar was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency June 7, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in August 2022 from Ardennes ...

 
Flagpole knocked down, flags vandalized at Bend's Vietnam Veterans Memorial at ... - KTVZ
... (POW/MIA) flag. "This is the second time someone has done this to the flag," Gabriel tells us. "Last time, I paid to fix it, with Mike Hinton ...
Remains of World War II Soldier, Minneapolis native, to be buried in Pittsford, New York
Cash died a prisoner of war July 16, 1942, at age 20. He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency April 3, 2024, after his remains ...
Remains of World War II Soldier to be buried in Phoenix, Arizona - DVIDS
Groh was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency July 9, 2021, after his remains were exhumed in April 2019 from the Ardennes ...

 
Remains of WWII soldier to be buried in Philip - Dakota News Now
Ferguson was ...
Soldier Accounted for from Korean War (Hardy, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. David E. Hardy, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean ...

 
Goodwill Efforts Can Help Account for US MIAs - VFW
... families to search for old documents and memorabilia found in the Vietnam War and send the items to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).

 
Rushville Elks displaying POW/MIA chair | Local News | greensburgdailynews.com
Pictured (left to right) just seconds after uncovering a new POW/MIA chair in the front foyer of Rushville Elks Lodge 1307 are Past Exalted Ruler ...

 
October 14, 2024
Remains of MN WWII airman forced on Bataan Death March, taken as POW identified - MSN
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced in a press release Thursday that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Private Robert W. Cash ...

 
 

 
Remains of Korean War soldier to be buried in Omaha - WOWT
Vorel was a member of ...

 
 

 
Forgotten no more: Elmira woman shares the 74-year journey for h - WENY News
... (POWs) and swore they had seen Ramos. ... For more details on Sergeant Ramos' story from the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, a press ...

 
Lake Area Teen's Remains That Were MIA In Korean War Return For Proper Burial – News
Wilson's remains were initially unidentified until 2018 when he was identified by the POW-MIA Accounting Agency. Wilson, who was 19-years-old, was ...

 

 
 

 
Korean War POW laid to rest in Ritchie County after 73 years - WBOY.com
He died of illness on April 24, 1951, at POW Camp 5 near Pyoktong, North Korea at the age of 23. ... The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the ...
October 13, 2024
Sergeant Robert G. Wolosonowich Obituary (2024) - A Natural State Funeral Service & Crematory
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) or the POW/MIA Foundation in Sergeant Robert ...

 
Remains of Korean War soldier to return home to Camden County, Mo. - MSN
According to the U.S. Army Human Resources, the remains of Army Cpl. Gerald “Jerry” N. Wilson will be buried at Parrack Grove Cemetery in Macks ...
October 11, 2024
World War II soldier who died as prisoner of war identified more than 80 years later - MSN
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Manuel Trujillo, 22, of Santa Fe, was captured and killed by Japanese forces. The capture happened ...

 
Sfc Israel Ramos Obituary (2024) - Kings Park, NY - Clayton Funeral Home, Inc. - Legacy.com
Israel Ramos Obituary The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on September 10, 2024 that U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Israel Ramos, 18, ...
October 11, 2024
MIA accounting agency sees slight uptick in number of remains identified over past year
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified 135 service members missing from World II, 33 from the Korean War and four from the Vietnam War ...
Missing Vet Found After 51 Years Laid to Rest by Family Who Never Gave Up
He remained unaccounted for until Dec. 5, 2023, when his remains were finally identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. ... bracelet that his ...

 

 
 

 
'Pieces of him': Vietnam war veteran's MIA bracelet returned to family during Central Valley ...
“She has been wearing your dad's POW-MIA bracelet for 55 years,” organizer Joe Fry said between tears. “What are the chances, Chris?” Shea said ...
October 10, 2024
Digging for answers: Ellsworth officer contributes to DPAA efforts
Fast forward to April of this year when Ison received an email from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) looking for volunteers for a mission ...
Soldier Accounted for from WWII (Karwacki, L.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Leon R. Karwacki, killed during World War II, ...

 
ILLINOIS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIER LAID TO REST AT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
“This is a miracle,” said Dillon, Jerele's primary next of kin, about the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's (DPAA) accounting for Jerele's remains.

 
Honoring the Past: A Filmmaker's Journey to Preserve Vietnam War Stories | Center Light ...
... families whose loved ones are missing from the war in Vietnam. I first met Steve Hiller at a POW/MIA League of Families meeting in Washington, D.C..

 
More Than 50 Years Later, MIA US Pilot Is Now Accounted For - Newser
Larry R. Kilpatrick, who disappeared in June 1972, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday, per CBS News. The 28-year-old from ...

 
Earl F. Ferguson | Pioneer Review
The family would like to thank the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency for their tireless efforts to identify Lt. Ferguson's remains. We would also ...
October 10, 2024
 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Thomas J. O'Brien, who died as a prisoner of war during the ...
 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr., killed during World War II, ...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-08/like-freeing-a-ghost-a-sailors-strange-and-wondrous-journey-back-from-pearl-harbor

and

'Like Freeing a Ghost': A Sailor's Strange and Wondrous Journey Back from Pearl Harbor

 
Everett Titterington, a native of Milford, Iowa, who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, is memorialized with a burial at Riverside National Cemetery in September 2024.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)...
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release. Kilpatrick, 28, was conducting what the DPAA called a "night armed reconnaissance mission ...

 
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (WSAV) – On Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced U.S. Navy Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Larry R. Kilpatrick 28 ...

From: Duus, Kristen L SFC USARMY DPAA EC (US) <kristen.l.duus.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 1 June, 2018 11:35
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Naval Pilot Killed During Vietnam War Accounted For (Kilpatrick, L.)

Dear Sir/Ma'am,

 

Naval Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Larry R. Kilpatrick, killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for on May 18.


http://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/Article/1537779/naval-pilot-killed-during-vietnam-war-accounted-for-kilpatrick-l/

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(WFRV) – Authorities with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Thursday that a soldier from Wisconsin who was killed during ...

 
October 9, 2024
Skip to main content (Press Enter). Toggle navigation. Home Logo: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Defense POW/MIA ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Merchant Marine Wiper Elvis N. Spotts, 18, of Kansas City, Missouri, ...

 
WASHINGTON, DC – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Merchant Marine Wiper Elvis N. Spotts, 18, of Kansas City, ...

 
Now, thanks to the work of a nonprofit and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), his body is finally coming home for burial.

 
Sadly, the POW aspect of war will always be that one undeniable that can create an MIA status. Here, in my last installment of the Russell Godde ...

 
Ralph Puckett Jr., the last living National Medal of Honor recipient from the Korean War, died in his sleep on Monday.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Simon Garelick, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war ...

 

 
 

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release. Kilpatrick, 28, was conducting what the DPAA called a "night armed reconnaissance mission." Sign ...
October 8, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Larry R. Kilpatrick, 28, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, ...

 
A “tentative association” was made between a set of remains labeled Unknown X 32 Pusan and Ortiz, according to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...

 
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Skaar was identified June 7, 2024. In early 1945, Skaar was assigned to Company C, 1st ...

Scientists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which is tasked with recovering unaccounted soldiers, then used anthropological, dental and ...
October 7, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that U.S. Army Corporal Eriverto Ortiz, 27, of Batesville, Texas, who was killed during the Korean ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class James C. Bowman, killed during the Korean War, ...
https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/world-news/russian-court-jails-us-citizen-stephen-james-hubbard-for-nearly-seven-years-on-ukraine-mercenary-charge/
 
Russian court jails US citizen for nearly seven years on Ukraine mercenary charge

 

ukraine war

Russian court jails US citizen for nearly seven years on Ukraine mercenary charge

 

https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/us-news/russian-court-sentences-u-s-citizen-gilman-to-over-7-years-in-prison-on-assault-charges/
 
Russian court sentences former US Marine Robert Gilman to over 7 years in prison on assault charges


Russian court sentences former US Marine to over 7 years in prison on assault charges

 

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The remains of a 27-year-old officer who fought in Burma during World War II as a member of the famed Merrill's ...
“I want to give these hard copies back.” Leo Case was stationed at Camp Lejeune after earning a Navy Cross for valor during World War II.
Sundstad was 26 years old in the summer of 1944. His unit, Task Force Galahad, was engaged with Japanese forces in Burma, the Defense POW/MIA ...
October 5, 2024
He was buried with full military honors at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. The 26-year-old World War II POW/MIA soldier was serving in ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced in a news ... Andrews, 19, was accounted for on June 5.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Tuesday that Roanoke Rapids, NC native Lt. John Harris was accounted for in June. Harris ...
October 4, 2024
Army First Lieutenant Herman J. Sundstad was killed in 1944. Now, the Minnesota native has had his remains identified by the Defense POW/MIA ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that Army Sgt. Clayton M. Pierce, 41, of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, killed during the ...

 

 
 

 
According to a news ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in a news release this week that U.S. Army Private Rodger Dean Andrews, 18, of Gravette, was ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Private James S. Mitchell, who was captured and died as a prisoner of ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James H. Murray, who was captured and died as a ...
Baltic News Network DISCOVER THE ART OF PUBLISHING. Home · Baltics · Social ... POW exchange in September. Photo: President of Ukraine/Flickr.

 
 

 
The 26-year-old World War II POW/MIA soldier died on December 28, 1942 of pneumonia in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. His ...

 
... September 6th and 7th you might have noticed some men wearing jackets with the logo Freedom Flight POW/MIA embossed with an eagle on the back.

 
October 3, 2024

 
 

 
U.S. Army Sgt. Jack Zarifian and U.S. Army Private Rodger D. Andrews were both 19 when they died in combat in Europe.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Estle E. Corvin, killed during World War II, ...
On November 18, 2019, remains were disinterred by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Using newer forensic science and DNA testing ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Johnson of Hurdsfield served on the USS Oklahoma and died during the ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Williard H. Edwards, killed during the Korean War, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey, who was captured and died as a prisoner of ...
October 2, 2024
U.S. Army Sgt. Jack Zarifian, 19, was killed near Buchhof, Germany on April 6, 1945. His body wasn't recovered until last October, ...

 
... POWs. And ... Bode's remains were identified using anthropological analysis and mitochondrial DNA, the Defense POW/MIA accounting agency said.
October 1, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) marked a significant milestone with the 100th identification from the World War II Cabanatuan prison ...

 

 
U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Ralph H. Bode was assigned to a bombardment squadron in the European Theater in late 1944, the Department POW/MIA ...
September 29, 2024

 
 

 
... , death toll rises. WSPA 7News New 674K views · 31:02 · Go to channel · Navy SEAL goes rogue in Iraq (*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*). MrBallen•17M views.

 
A retired Navy SEAL whose brother was killed by Hezbollah terrorists expressed relief when he heard that Hassan Nasrallah was killed. “When the ...

 
September 28, 2024
The U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has thanked the Vietnamese government for cooperation in finding and identifying the remains of ...

 

 
 

 
Bode's remains were identified using anthropological analysis and mitochondrial DNA, the Defense POW/MIA accounting agency said. Top Picks. Videos ...
September 27, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Gilman's remains are among the more than 1,000 still unidentified. He died on Aug. 25, 1942, only a month after his ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Bode was brought back home to Wisconsin on Friday, Sept. 20 — a day that just so happened to fall on POW/MIA day. On ...
September 26, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency). Facebook Share Icon · Twitter Share Icon · Email Share Icon. Comment bubble ... TOPICS: World War IIRalph H. BodeRacine ...

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that Army Private 1st Class Charles A. Vorel Jr., 19, of Omaha, Nebraska, ...

 
A soldier from Texas who was killed fighting in the Korean War has been identified, according to a Monday news release by the Defense POW/MIA ...

 
September 25, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Howard L. Hasselkus, who was captured and died as a prisoner of ...

 
In 2012, investigators with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) began researching and investigating the missing Marines buried at Hills X and ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Edward S. Kovaleski, killed during World War II, ...

 

 
 

 
The remains of a Vietnam War pilot were identified a half century after his plane vanished, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced ...
The ceremony was hosted by the US Embassy in Port Moresby and the Defence Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency (DPAA).
Back in 2004, both soldiers remains were taken to the US military's central identification laboratory (CIL) of the joint POW/MIA accounting command in ...

 
On May 16, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Private First-Class Morris Everett Canady, missing from World ...

On May 31, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Bruce H. Brown, 23, of Richmond, California, ...

09/23/2024

Yuri Hulchuk, 23, was electrocuted through his genitals by a notorious Russian torturer named Dr Evil after being captured in the war in 2022.

 


 

09/16/2024

https://www.breitbart.com/news/an-american-pastor-detained-in-china-for-nearly-20-years-has-been-released/

American Pastor Detained in China for Nearly 20 Years Has Been Released

David Lin, 68, was detained after he entered China in 2006, later convicted of contract fraud and sentenced to life in prison, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and advocacy groups.

“Praise God! We got the call late last night!!! Dad is free and over Alaska now,” the pastor’s daughter, Alice Lin, said by text message Sunday to Bob Fu, a longtime supporter and the founder of China Aid, an U.S.-based advocacy group for persecuted activists in China. Fu shared with The Associated Press a screenshot of the text sent before the Lins reunited.

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09/11/2024

Airmen's Search for Remains Recalls Top Secret WWII Mission to Turn Planes into Flying Bombs

Dozens of U.S. airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig earlier this year aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during World War II, and in the process helped shine a light on one of the war's most ambitious and ill-fated secret operations against the Nazis.

The search for Army Air Forces Lt. John Wesley Fisher, of Peekskill, New York, led the airmen to a plot of land in Britain's Suffolk district near the English Channel coast, where Senior Airman Wyatt Stephensen of the 100th Maintenance Squadron, 100th Air Refueling Wing, spent five days helping with the search.

Brazil Maru Soldier Accounted for from WWII (Gaebler, F.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Fritz O. Gaebler, killed during World War II, was accounted ...
Soldier Accounted for from WWII (MacDonald, J.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Private 1st Class Joseph C. MacDonald, 20, of Avenal, California, ...
Soldier Accounted for from WWII (Reiser, C.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Private 1st Class Charles R. Reiser, killed during World War II, ...
Military Funeral Honors with Funeral Escort are Conducted for U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd ...
From a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) press release: On Dec. 7, 1941, Walker was assigned to the battleship USS California, which was ...
September 8, 2024
Shearing sheep, runners against suicide, remembering S.D. MIAs - The Dakota Scout
There are seven POW/MIA South Dakotans still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War: Capt. Tommy Leon Callies, of Howard. Callies was a fighter ...

 

 
 

 
Iowan Everett Titterington died at Pearl Harbor. 82 years later, he'll finally be buried.
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), an organization run under the Department of Defense. Titterington's remains, along with others who were aboard ...

 
Remains of missing World War II soldier set to return home - MSN
The department's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, tasked with recovering prisoners of war and service members missing in action, said Calkins ...
September 7, 2024
Pittsburgh-area family of Pearl Harbor sailor ID'd after more than 80 years attend Arlington burial
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. TribLive. Feature Your Business, Talking ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency spokesman. The Navy had the list of ...

 
September Glowing Tribute Honors POWS/MIAS - Woodlands Online
'You Are Not Forgotten' is the central theme for the POW-MIA Recognition Day that honors American prisoners of war, as well as those still missing in ...

 
Crashed 70+ Years Ago, U.S. Begins Hunt For Missing 'Invader' Bomber Lost During 1953 ...
The search, which began on September 3, is a collaboration between the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and South Korea's Agency for ...
Military Funeral Honors with Funeral Escort are Conducted for U.S. Army Chaplain (1st Lt ... - DVIDS
Afterwards, Congress wished to award the Medal of Honor to each of the chaplains, but stringent requirements (heroism performed under fire) prevented ...
Military Funeral Honors with Funeral Escort are Conducted for U.S. Army Chaplain (1st Lt ... - DVIDS
On Feb. 3, 1943, Fox was traveling aboard the U.S. Army Transport (USAT) Dorchester from Newfoundland to an American base in Greenland. One of three ...

 
Remains of World War II soldier from La Crosse identified 79 years later | News - WXOW
They said that on March 10, Skaar was killed in action while his unit was on patrol near Wildenguth, France. Pvt. Robert Skaar 3-Silver Star.jpg.
September 6, 2024
Gov. Evers orders flags to half-staff in onor ofh Corporal Robert P. Raess who lost his life in ...
Corporal Raess' remains were positively identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on March 26, 2024. Corporal Raess will be buried on ...

 
A Norfolk sailor who died at Pearl Harbor was buried at Arlington this week. His family says ...
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. David Walker, 19, of Norfolk, died ... The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency located Stone and a few other of ...
U.S. Navy Sailor Arrested In Venezuela For Traveling Without Authorization - Marine Insight
The sailor, identified as a petty officer first class and former Navy SEAL, was arrested in Caracas on August 30, 2024. Authorities have revealed ...
Author of 'Unwavering' to speak at central Pa. Vietnam Round Table's next meeting
This lively presentation will highlight how a handful of unlikely trailblazers made the POW/MIA issue the centerpiece of the Paris peace negotiations.

 
Missing Western Wisconsin WWII solider's remains identified | News | wqow.com
Using dental and anthropological analysis scientists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency were able to positively identify those remains found ...
September 3, 2024
S. Korea, U.S. launch war remains search project in waters off Busan
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States kicked off a joint underwater...

 
Korea, US launch war remains search project in waters off Busan
Korea and the United States kicked off a joint underwater excavation project Tuesday in waters off the southeastern port city of Busan to search ...
August 31, 2024

 
 

 
A WWII POW returns to Onalaska, WI for burial | WFRV Local 5 - Green Bay, Appleton
He was officially listed as missing in the Philippines until May of 2024 when the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency positively identified
08/19/2024
https://nypost.com/2024/08/19/us-news/air-force-veteran-joseph-lopez-brother-sentenced-to-dubai-jail-after-being-drugged/

Air Force veteran, brother sentenced to ‘notorious’ Dubai jail after being ‘drugged’

Two Ohio brothers — including an Air Force veteran-turned-influencer — who claim they were “drugged” during a yacht party in the United
Arab Emirates were sentenced to jail for alcohol consumption, a law that is strictly enforced in the Middle Eastern nation....

08/10/2024

https://nypost.com/2024/08/10/us-news/taliban-detainees-wife-desperate-for-white-house-to-help-rescue-malnourished-husband/

Sounding off Wife of American languishing in Taliban custody says she’s been ‘ignored’ by White House

“I’m not rich and famous,” Anna told CBS News. “I don’t have as many resources as others. I just don’t know what else can be done.”

August 5, 2024
NEWS  
U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph C. Murphy was laid to rest of Saturday, August. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). U.S. Army ...
http://inbox.foxnews.com/t?r=6053&c=6273&l=1&ctl=9389:7847F193524638CFE16EE8F2E739108FEC3F377570CDF09F&EID=8fbd6946ec2ad9adf5180c5e26a7a614fd37aeee4f29c228463068e9e672a33c&

07/9/2024

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich convicted on bogus espionage charges in Russia

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years Friday after a swift Russian trial....

CC: from Terry Sanders (NAM POW Friend)....

The award-winning feature documentary “Return With Honor,” is, for the first time, available for sale on Vimeo on Demand.


 

Please spread the word.

Thank you!


 

Terry Sanders

Freida Lee Mock

Producer/Directors

American Film Foundation

Am.film@verizon.net

American Film Foundation Vimeo on Demand

June 19, 2024
NEWS  
Ralph and Bobbi Gaither do. "I wore a POW/MIA bracelet with Ralph's name on it for several years before we met. When we finally did meet it was on a ...
06/13/2024

https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/world-news/wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-jailed-in-russia-on-espionage-charges-to-stand-trial-officials/
 

Evan Gershkovich is reportedly going to stand trial.
BREAKING

Jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich to stand trial in Russia

From:  Skip Bell
06/12/2024


Fellow Vietnam Veterans-

 

I received the essay below from AVVBA Member Bill Brown.  Bill got it from a friend of his whose son wrote it competing for a Vietnam Veterans of America scholarship (which he was subsequently awarded for obvious reasons).  Bill sent it to me and I think it is worth sharing with you folks.  This gives me hope for the youth of our Nation.

 

Why Freedom Isn’t Free

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the three rights mentioned in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence that profoundly altered the lives of all Americans, present, past, and future. Over 200 years ago, the founding fathers recognized these three principles as the foundation for all of society in the United States. The right to life is the right to not be deprived of life unfairly or arbitrarily. The right to liberty is the right to be free from immoral oppression in society. The right to the pursuit of happiness is the right of a person to achieve true happiness by their own will. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the foundations of freedom. This freedom is widely recognized and cherished by Americans, utilized by hundreds of millions of Americans every moment. The cost of those seven words, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is an unfathomable debt that is still being collected to this day.

On August 20, 1964, the Viet Cong carried out a fierce ambush against the Vietnamese 41st Ranger Battalion. During the one hour and forty-minute ambush, one man valiantly paid his life for the cause of freedom. First Lieutenant William D. Ragin sacrificed his life trying to get his fellow unit to safety. The inscrutable pain and fear he endured as the Viet Cong viciously and repeatedly bombarded his position is unimaginable. His sacrifice represents the true cost of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Countless Americans, like Dave Ragin, proudly gave, and continue to give, their lives to safeguard the freedom of the United States. It is through the collective physical efforts of men and women that the debt of our freedom is fulfilled.

While the physical sacrifices of those who served the United States are crucial, the true threat is the mental illnesses that undoubtedly plague veterans. Data from the National Library of Medicine shows that around 23% of veterans suffer from PTSD, 16% suffer from major depression, and 13% suffer from at least one item on the Kessler six-item measure of general distress. These men and women not only suffer from mental illnesses, but many also struggle with drug and substance abuse. Even long after the physical trials and tribulations of war ended,

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thousands of veterans continue to suffer. The horrors of war, the memories of witnessing friends fall, and the trials of the past haunt thousands of veterans every single day. Since the first American laid down his life for our nation, this mental debt has been paid and collected through the agony of thousands of veterans. That is the true debt of America’s cherished right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the right to freedom.

The physical and mental pains of war are frequently difficult to imagine, making them equally hard to remember. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” How often do people fail to remember those who suffered for freedom? How often should people remember about the brutal sacrifices made? Every man and woman who has sacrificed their life during war paid the debt of freedom. Every man and woman who relives the pains of war pays the debt of freedom. Every man and woman who will enlist will pay the debt of freedom. If we are not brave enough to pay that debt ourselves, we must ask ourselves how can we help our veterans who have already paid but are still suffering. The key is to remember: Our freedom comes at a cost. We must remember those who paid that cost, how they paid it, and how they continue to pay it and honor them with reverence.

 

Welcome Home!

Skip

 

Carl "Skip" Bell

Chairman of the Board

 

 

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05/20/2024
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/05/18/us-intelligence-suggests-american-who-vanished-syria-2017-has-died-daughter-says-she-was-told.html?ESRC=eb_240520.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20240520
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, the man's daughter said Saturday.
Maryam Kamalmaz said in an interview with The Associated Press that during a meeting in Washington this month with eight senior American officials she was presented with detailed intelligence about the presumed death of
her father, Majd, a psychotherapist from Texas.....
04/25/2024

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/24/ancestry-website-catalogue-names-of-japanese-americans-incarcerated-during-world-war-ii.html?ESRC=eb_240425.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20240425

Ancestry Website to Catalogue Names of Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II

03/03/2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) – part of the US Department of Defense – recovers American military personnel who are prisoners of ..
The People's Network · Login · Bookmarks · My Profile · Log Out. Breaking News ... Colonel Henry Fowler, a Vietnam War POW turned legal educator, was ...
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. ... Clifford H. Strickland. © Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/TNS.
Email. US-NEWS-COLO-MISSINGPOW-IDENTIFIED-MCT. Clifford H. Strickland. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/TNS ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Clifford H.

 
The remains of a Fowler, Colorado soldier have been identified, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this week. U.S. Army Technician ...
In 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had positively identified Ward's remains.
March 1, 2024
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency in August 2019 for laboratory analysis, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan De Anda was accounted ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Clifford H. Strickland, 25, was a Fifth Grade U.S. Army Technician and member of Company C, 803rd Engineer Battalion .
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Clifford H. Strickland. Prisoners endured the 65-mile Baatan Death March before being held at the Cabanatuan POW camp.

 
Ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang told a news conference that a delegation from the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency visited ...
BEIJING, Feb. 29 — In a recent press conference, Chinese Defense Spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang highlighted the ongoing cooperation ...

 
During a press briefing, Ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang revealed that the delegation, representing the US Defence POW/MIA ...

 
Prime Minister Hun Sen suspended the POW/MIA program when Washington stopped issuing some visas after Cambodia refused to accept citizens deported ...

 
WHEREAS, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency reported the remains of 24-year-old Marine Corps Sergeant Harold Hammett of Hattiesburg ...
February 28, 2024
The POW/MIA Accounting Agency positively identified the remains of Seaman 2nd Class Cecil Thornton.

 
The recent identification of Seaman 2nd Class Cecil Thornton's remains by the POW/MIA Accounting Agency marks a poignant chapter in the ongoing ...

 
The remains from Common Grave 215 were once again exhumed in 2018 and sent to a laboratory. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency used dental, ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this month that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan W. Corson, 27, of Middletown, Ohio, ...

 
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Joshua Alexander, left, and Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Weber, of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, ...

 
... POW camp and relocated them to a U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. In 1947, Hurt's body and other ...
From: Amy Waters Yarsinske 
Sent: 2 March, 2024 11:39
To: moehog@verizon.net
Subject: WORLD WAR II DISCOVERY

Moe:

Didn't know you'd seen this yet. 'Missing WWII U.S. Marines' plane is FOUND 80 years after vanishing during daring divebombing mission against Japanese forces: 
Human remains are discovered alongside wreck in Papua, New Guinea jungle.' 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13136921/Missing-WWII-Marines-plane-80-years-vanishing-daring-divebombing-mission-against-Japanese-forces-Human-
remains-discovered-alongside-wreck-Papua-New-Guinea-jungle.html 


Interesting story.

Amy

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 28 February, 2024 11:46
Subject: DPAA News Release - Colorado Soldier Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

Tec5 Strickland was accounted for in December, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland, 25, of Fowler, Colorado, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for December 20, 2023.

 

In summer 1942, Strickland was a member of Company C, 803rd Engineer Battalion (Aviation), U.S. Army, 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. Strickland was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.

 

According to prison camp and other historical records, Strickland died July 29, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215.

 

Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) 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. Five sets of remains from Common Grave 215 were identified, but the remaining seven were declared unidentifiable, including those of Tec 5 Strickland. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.

 

In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 215 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

           

To identify Strickland’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

 

Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Strickland’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

 

Strickland will be buried in Florence, Colorado, on June 29, 2024.

 

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

 

DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.

 

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

 

Strickland’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeuKEAS

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Wayne Crowl was killed in France in 1944. In September 2021, Joyce Evans, of Johnstown, received a call from the Defense POW/MIA ...
It was a long-standing mission that took unwavering dedication and collaboration with the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). As WPTV ...
February 24, 2024

 
 

 
The family teamed up with the POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which works to account for every missing servicemember, identify them and bring ...
February 23, 2024
United Cigars announced the debut of the one-size, Gold Star Limited-Edition cigar in honor of the Navy SEALs, set to release at the PCA trade ...

 
Two Navy SEALS died during the mission. U.S. officials said that Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers was boarding the boat ...
February 22, 2024
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Harold Hammett was born in Avery ... Using mitochondrial DNA analysis and anthropological analysis (for example, ...


From:
Fred Ingley <fritzy39@gmail.com>
Sent: 22 February, 2024 07:31
To: Jim 'moe' Moyer
<moehog@verizon.net>

Subject: World War II sergeant laid to rest 80 years after his death in battle

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
 

Moe,

Here's a story that appeared on WCTV.TV in Tallahassee.  Thought you'd like to see it.

Fred

SOURCE: WDAM)

Published: Feb. 20, 2024 at 8:16 PM EST

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - A sergeant from Mississippi was finally laid to rest 80 years after his death in World War II.

Sergeant Harold Hammett left Hattiesburg for San Francisco in 1940.

Hammett later enlisted in the Marine Corps and became one among thousands who were sent to the South Pacific during World War II.

By 1943, Hammett was a member of the 2nd Marine Division when U.S. forces landed on the Island of Betio, according to Hammett’s cousin, Roger White....
Imagine his surprise when a couple years ago he was contacted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and asked for a DNA sample. “I didn ...
It should establish a national day for prisoners of war," he said, adding that the government in the U.S. designated its National POW/MIA Recognition ...
It will now be up to the experts of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to examine and identify these remains in a process that could take years.

Two U.S. Navy SEALs lost in nighttime seas during a raid on a small boat off Somalia were declared dead Sunday.
February 21, 2024
Kelly McKeague, who leads the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, said ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency, July 7, 2023. During the ceremony, Harris was buried in Pleyto Cemetery, a small cemetery where most of Harris' family ...
DNA has long been used to identify human remains. Such is the case at the identification lab operated by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 
In the quest to bring closure to families of missing service members, a groundbreaking partnership between the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency ...
POW and MIA stand for prisoners of war and missing in action, respectively. "When I met with the PRC senior official when they visited the Pentagon in ...

 
In a revealing virtual press meeting, Kelly McKeague, the head of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), disclosed the initiation of dialogues ...

 
Speaking in a virtual press meeting, Kelly McKeague, the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), said that he asked a visiting ...
February 20, 2024
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Subject: WWII veteran's remains returned home 82 years after death in Philippines
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:01:08 +0000
From: John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com>
Subject: WWII veteran's remains returned home 82 years after death in Philippines

 
I thought you would be interested in this story I found on MSN: WWII veteran's remains returned home 82 years after death in Philippines -

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wwii-veteran-s-remains-returned-home-82-years-after-death-in-philippines/ss-BB1iwtrY?ocid=socialshare&cvid=
4cc2cf3c1e6f451e979f3536e4ab1fd0&ei=78 


 
People who never knew Robert Lee Hurst, a Wabasso soldier who died as a POW ... In 2023, the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, after six years of ...

 
The recent confirmation of his remains by the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has not only provided closure but also reignited a sense of ...

 
... POW camp. February 20 ... In 2018, the remains from that common grave were disinterred and sent to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency for analysis.
February 20, 2024
A Lincoln County student recently held a dedication of a POW/MIA table with settings for one at Lincoln County High School Library.

 
... POW/MIA, environment, clearance of unexploded ordnance and landmines and food security. He does acknowledge David Whitehouse's rights, the author ...
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/world-news/russia-detains-dual-us-russian-citizen-for-treason-tass-citing-fsb-as-source/
 

Russia detains dual US-Russian citizen on suspicion of treason: report

Russia’s Federal Security Service has detained a woman with dual Russian-US citizenship in the Urals mountain city of Yekaterinburg on suspicion of treason for providing “financial assistance” to Ukraine’s armed forces, the TASS news agency reported.

The 33-year-old resident of Los Angeles had been collecting funds for a Ukrainian organization whose ultimate beneficiary was the Ukrainian army, the FSB said, according to TASS.

“The Federal Security Service in Yekaterinburg suppressed the illegal activities of a 33-year-old resident of Los Angeles, who has dual citizenship of Russia and the United States,” TASS quoted the FSB as saying.

---------------------------
 

 

Vladimir Putin's secret security force the FSB has arrested a dual Russian-American citizen on treason charges, officials said Tuesday. Video posted by a Russian news agency shows 32-year-old Ksenia Karelina being led into a courtroom in handcuffs with her face blurred. According to the agency, Karelina is a resident of Los Angeles. She's accused of fundraising for a Ukrainian cause. At least one report suggests that her fundraising efforts have so far garnered just $...

...Karelina is the latest American behind bars in Russia, in addition to Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Texas dad David Barnes, 65, who last week was sentenced to 21 years in prison in Moscow on child abuse charges. ...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/18/solemn-monument-japanese-american-wwii-detainees-lists-more-125000-names.html?ESRC=eb_
240219.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20240219

Solemn Monument to Japanese American WWII Detainees Lists More Than 125,000 Names

February 17, 2024
OREGON, Ohio — A young soldier's journey home is nearly complete, 80 years after he was killed in World War II. On Feb. 12, the Defense POW/MIA ...

 
February 16, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced this week it had identified the remains of Staff Sgt. Jack Coy, and that he will be buried in ...

 
The remains of Marine Corps Sgt. Harold Hammett, 24, were finally accounted for on Sept. 23, 2023, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
... Matt Maupin. On April ...

 
Then, in 2019 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterred a set of remains listed as “Unknown X-945” from the National Memorial Cemetery of the ...

 
So prior to identification, we work with the families, we work with the Defense POW/MIA Army Accounting Agency, the Armed Forces medical examiner.

 

 
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/13/va-plan-issue-urns-memorial-plaques-sparks-concerns-veterans-will-be-barred-burial-spouses.html?ESRC=eb_240214.
nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20240214
 

VA Plan to Issue Urns, Memorial Plaques Sparks Concerns Veterans Will Be Barred from Burial with Spouses

Harold Hammett of Hattiesburg have been accounted for and will be returned to Mississippi for burial, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced.
"That's what they said.” Department of Defense POW-MIA accounting agency senior historian Dr. Gregory Kupsky described the process of officially ...
United Cigars announced the debut of the one-size, Gold Star Limited-Edition cigar in honor of the Navy SEALs, set to release at the PCA trade ...
POW/MIA Recognition Day · USS Cole Sinking · Veterans Day · VJ Day · Women's History Month. Daily Military Trivia. 1) Of the 527 U.S. Army Air Forces ...

 
Robert Lee Hurst went missing in the Philippines in 1942 while serving in the Army. The mystery was solved decades later, and now he is coming ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13084457/Shocking-pictures-Ukrainian-soldier-looking-painfully-freed-Russian-captivity.html


 
Shocking before and after pictures show Ukrainian soldier looking painfully thin after



When Volodymyr Tsema-Bursov, 41, was taken prisoner by invading Russian troops 20 months
ago he weighed a healthy 95kg (insets). But horrifying photos (left and right) taken after his release
last month as part of a prisoner exchange show what could be mistaken for pictures from a World
War II Nazi death camp. Volodymyr, who is 6.2ft, has lost nearly half his body weight and now
weighs just 57kg. His skeletal body is so thin that every rib can be counted and his painfully
fleshless arms hang down like pipe cleaners. He is being treated for multiple medical problems
caused by his starvation. Volodymyr said: 'My health is much worse than I expected.'

 

~~~
 

February 14, 2024
... MIA pal and located the foxhole that had kept him safe that day. ... James Cloninger, an archivist and historian with the department's POW/MIA ...
February 13, 2024
And, the scientists and the Defense POW/MIA Accountability Agency, or DPAA, are using a relatively new method to try to find remains in Cambodia.

 
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that U.S. Army Cpl. Charles R. Patten, 24, of Lebanon, killed during ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), a U.S. military agency that identifies the remains of prisoners of war and soldiers missing in ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that 24-year-old U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Harold Hammett, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, ...
Additionally, he was awarded the Rome Historical Society's 1777 Medal of Honor. The Tuskegee Airman dedicated his time to bettering the lives of ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack W. Coy, 20, of Toledo, Ohio, killed during ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency reported the remains of 24-year-old Marine Corps Sgt. Harold Hammett of Hattiesburg have been accounted for ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Pfc. Richard G. Pitsor, 18, of Ft. Bayard, New Mexico, who was captured and ...

 
In late February 2020, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency sent the remains to the DPAA's laboratory for analysis. The laboratory was able to ...

 
The Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency reports that U.S. Army Corporal Charles R. Patten, who was 24 at the time, was actually accounted for back in ...
February 12, 2024
... (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency). Facebook Share Icon · Twitter Share Icon · Email Share Icon. Comment bubble.

 
Patten, 24, of Lebanon, was killed in action during the Korean War. According to a press release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in ...

 
TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo native killed during World War II has been accounted for nearly 80 years after his death, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
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From: Coalition of Families <coalitionoffamilies2@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Subject: DPAA’s Phase 5 Korean War Punch Bowl Disinterments - Set to Resume
To: <coalitionoffamilies@gmail.com>
 

Hello Everyone,

 

There is good news. Phase 5 of DPAA’s Korean War Punch Bowl cemetery disinterment project has been cleared to restart. Disinterments are scheduled to resume ‘mid-March’. Three months will have been lost but at least it will be underway. Phase 5 is expected to be completed by October.

 

The delay was ordered in December by a DoD counterpart agency, Personnel & Readiness. The short term issues raised were resolved last week. The broader issue is tied to which agency within DoD has authority over past conflicts disinterment projects – should P&R even have had the authority to halt the project. This issue still needs to be resolved.

 

An upcoming Coalition newsletter will present the ins-and-outs of the entire saga.  Crazy.

 

Until then,


 

Rick
 

Richard Downes, President

Coalition of Families of Korean & Cold War POW/MIAs
 

25th Anniversary (1998-2023)

 

Join us! The Coalition pursues answers to the stories of missing American servicemen from the Korean and Cold Wars.

www.coalitionoffamilies.org

 

(A 501(3)C non-profit organization)


 

P.O. Box 4194

Portsmouth, NH 03802

818.259.9950

 

www.coalitionoffamilies.org

Welcome HOME TECH4 Hartwick!

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 February, 2024 13:20
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kansas Soldier Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

TECH4 Hartwick was accounted for in August 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

-----------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Tech. 4th Grade (TECH4) Elmo F. Hartwick, 38, of Onaga, Kansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 21, 2023.

In June 1944, Hartwick was assigned to Company C, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion in the European Theater. On June 6, Hartwick was aboard Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 92, along with roughly 200 other servicemembers, enroute to land on Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France. As LCI-92 steamed toward the shore, it struck an underwater mine which caused the craft to burst into flames. The craft was also hit by enemy artillery fire, causing an explosion that ignited the ships fuel stores and instantly killed everyone in the troop compartment. Due to the urgency of the situation, it was impossible for others to search for survivors. Hartwick’s remains were not accounted for after the war.

Around June 10, members of the 500th Medical Collecting Company examined the wreckage of LCI-92 and noted the burnt remains of servicemen in the troop compartment, where Hartwick and others were last seen. American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, removed small amounts of remains from LCI-92 and buried them in the United States Military Cemetery (USMC) St. Laurent-sur-Mer.

Beginning in 1946, AGRC analyzed the remains found in LCI-92, segregating them into four separate Unknowns (X-53, X-83, X-83B, and X-83C). Despite their efforts, AGRC were unable to identify the Unknowns at the time and they were interred in Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Normandy, France.

In June and August 2021, the Department of Defense and ABMC officials exhumed the comingled remains of the four Unknowns and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis.

To identify Hartwick’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Hartwick’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Hartwick will be buried in Onaga, Kansas, on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Hartwick’s personnel profile can be viewed at  https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmAbEAK

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 February, 2024 08:59
Subject: DPAA News Release - Missouri Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

Greetings,

CPL Patten was accounted for in June 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Charles R. Patten, 24, of Lebanon, Missouri, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for June 7, 2023.

In July 1950, Patten was a member of Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit was forced to retreat from the vicinity of Taejon, South Korea, on July 20. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.

After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Taejon. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-2 Taejon. A tentative association was made between X-2 and Patten, but definitive proof could not be found, and X-2 was determined to be unidentifiable. The remains were sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.

In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On February 24, 2020, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-2 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory, for analysis.

To identify Patten’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Patten’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Cpl. Patten will be buried in Lawson, Missouri, on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Patten’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ildUNEA

... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). According to the DPAA, 24-year-old U.S. Army Cpl. Charles R. Patten went missing in action in July 1950 after ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Tech. 4th Grade (TECH4) Elmo F. Hartwick, 38, of Onaga, Kansas, ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Monday, Feb.12 that the remains of Elmo F. Hartwick, 38, of Onaga, Kansas have been ...
The missions were undertaken by a team from the US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), who spent several weeks surveying sites in southern China ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Charles R. Patten, 24, of Lebanon, Missouri, killed during the ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that a Missouri soldier has been accounted for from the Korean War.

 
Improved and expanded DNA testing and other analyses have allowed the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to identify some of the 71,180 ...
February 11, 2024
PalaeoWest for US POW/MIA Accounting Agency uncovered wreckage of a World War II B26-B aircraft, long rumored in the dense rugged terrain.
February 10, 2024
Harold Hammett (photo courtesy of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency). The remains of a fallen World War II soldier hailing from the state of ...
February 9, 2024

 
 

 
A team with the US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) “spent several weeks surveying sites in southern China in order to provide vital ...
February 9, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Marine Corps Sgt. Harold Hammett, 24, killed during World War II, was accounted ...

 
Hurst was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency July 10, 2023, after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence as ...

 
“It's representing the community,” he said. The mayor also said the POW/MIA flag, recognizing U.S. service members who are prisoners of war or missing ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Marine Corps Sgt. Harold Hammett, killed during World War II, was accounted for on September 25 ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is the agency responsible for upholding that promise and performing that sacred duty. Facebook · X ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. ... pow-mia-accounting-agency. Deeds' personnel profile can be viewed at ...

 
 

 
Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Larry Taylor laid to rest at Chattanooga National Cemetery.

 
 

 
Chattanooga Medal of Honor recipient Larry Taylor was laid to rest Wednesday. Taylor was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the ...

 
The father of one of her close girlfriends was a pilot whose plane was shot down, and Hannah started wearing his POW bracelet. The experience had ...
February 8, 2024
U.S. Army Pvt. Robert L. A. Hurst was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency July 10, 2023, after his remains were...

 
US admits 'Patriot' role in POW plane downing - NYT. US admits 'Patriot ... Copyright © 1998-2024 Big News Network All rights reserved. ISSN: 2616 ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release Wednesday that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Daniel Winstead Corson, who ...
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Our news partner WCPO reports that the family was notified back in October. Corson was assigned to the 401st ...

 
U.S. Army Pvt. Robert L. A. Hurst was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency July 10, 2023, after his remains were identified using ...
February 7, 2024
From Cox-Gifford Seawinds Funeral Home & Crematory. Robert L. A. Hurst, 21, Wabasso. February 18, 1921 – July 27, 1942. The Defense POW/MIA ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. James H. Marrah, 22, of London, Ohio, killed during ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan W. Corson, 27, of Middletown, Ohio, ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The DPAA says the U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan W. Corson, 27, of Middletown was killed ...

 
The U.S. Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that 27-year-old Dan Corson was officially accounted for on September 22. His ...

 

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that 1st Lt. Dan W. Corson, a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot from Middletown who went ...
Thanks to the efforts of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), a southern Illinois native will be put to rest after almost 80 years missing in ...

 
MARION — Thanks to the efforts of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), a Southern Illinois native will be put to rest after almost 80 ...
February 6, 2024
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Fireman First Class (F1c) Walter F. Schleiter, 22, of Massillon, Ohio, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Harold L. Seifreid, 31, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...

 
Gene Hughes, U.S. Navy POW/MIA Office communications manager, said Tuesday that the COVID-19 pandemic and additional time necessary to identify ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army CPL Adin C. Norris Jr., 21, of Kansas City, Missouri, killed during ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. William L. Leukering, 28, of Metropolis, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Tuesday that 28-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. William L. Leukering of Metropolis, ...

 
An Illinois sergeant who was killed during World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday.

 
In fiscal 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovered the remains of 127 service members – 88 from World War II, 35 from the ...

 
(WAND) - The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. William L. Leukering, 28, of Metropolis, ...

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 February, 2024 10:32
Subject: DPAA News Release - Missouri Soldier Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

CPL Norris was accounted for in December 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

-----------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army CPL Adin C. Norris Jr., 21, of Kansas City, Missouri, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Dec. 5, 2022.

In July 1950, Norris was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on July 20 after his unit sustained heavy casualties while withdrawing from Taejon, South Korea. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.

After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Taejon. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-266 Taejon. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-266, the remains were declared unidentifiable. They were later sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, with other Korean War Unknowns.

In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On July 15, 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-266 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

To identify Norris’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Norris’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Norris will be buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency

Norris’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000E0tpDEAR

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 February, 2024 10:05
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Pilot Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

2Lt. Marrah was accounted for in August 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

--------------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. James H. Marrah, 22, of London, Ohio, killed during World War II was accounted for August 3, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, Marrah served with the 415th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Marrah was serving as a co-pilot, crashed as a result of enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania. 

Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.

In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.

To identify Marrah’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis and autosomal DNA (auSTR).

Marrah’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Marrah will be buried in London, Ohio, on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Marrah’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pUUEA

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 February, 2024 13:25
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Pilot Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

1Lt. Corson was accounted for in September 2023, and his family received their full briefing on his identification in October 2023, but they requested we hold his release, which is why this is going out now.

-----------

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan W. Corson, 27, of Middletown, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 22, 2023.

 

In December of 1942, Corson was assigned to the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On December 20, Corson was co-piloting a B-17F “Flying Fortress,” nicknamed Danellen, when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German aircraft factory at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Corson’s aircraft was last seen spinning towards the ground, crashing near the village of Bernières-sur-Seine, France. Only one airman parachuted successfully, while the other eight crew members, including Corson, were still on board. A villager witnessed the crash and confirmed there was only one survivor. The War Department issued a finding of death for 1st Lt. Corson on Dec. 20, 1943.

 

Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. Following the war, the AGRC disinterred four sets of remains later designated as X-83, X-84, X-85, and X-86 St. Andre from Evreux cemetery. They were unable to identify the remains and were interred at the Normandy American Cemetery.

 

In 2011, a family member of one of the Danellen crew contacted the Department of Defense after visiting the crash site and interviewing a witness who had artifacts belonging to the Danellen. In April 2011, DPAA historians re-analyzed the unknowns associated with the crew and determined there was enough evidence to pursue the case. In October that year, a DPAA Investigation Team traveled to Bernières-sur-Seine to interview the witness and learned the crash site was completely destroyed. In March 2019, the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) exhumed the unknown remains designated X-83, X-85, and X-86 St. Andre believed to be associated with the crew of the Danellen, including 1st Lt. Corson, from Normandy American Cemetery.

 

To identify Corson’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.

 

Corson’s name is recorded on the memorialized on the Wall of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Cambridge, England, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

 

Corson will be buried in Middletown, Ohio, on a date to be determined.

 

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

 

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

 

Corson’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeyrEAC

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 February, 2024 14:56
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Pilot Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

1Lt. Deeds was accounted for in January 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. James A. Deeds, 23 of Oakland, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 3, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, Deeds was assigned to the 345th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 “Liberator” bomber Kate Smith piloted by Deeds was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania. 

Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.

In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.

To identify Deeds’ remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.

Deeds name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Deeds will be buried in San Diego, California, on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Deeds’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000cLlnKEAS.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 February, 2024 14:35
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor from Ohio Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

F1c Schleiter was accounted for in May 2018, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

---------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Fireman First Class (F1c) Walter F. Schleiter, 22, of Massillon, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for on May 18, 2018.

On Dec. 7, 1941, Schleiter was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Schleiter.

From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.

In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Schleiter.

Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.

To identify Schleiter’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Schleiter’s name is recorded in the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Schleiter will be buried on April 11, 2024, in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

For family and funeral information, contact the US Navy Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.

DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Schleiter’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgTcEAK

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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 2 February, 2024 14:49
Subject: DPAA News Release - New Mexico Soldier Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

PFC Pistor was accounted for in March 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Richard G. Pitsor, 18, of Ft. Bayard, New Mexico, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for March 20, 2023.

In late 1941, Pitsor was a member of G Company of the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment, 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.  Pitsor was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.

According to prison camp and other historical records, Pitsor died Aug. 28,1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 305.

Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) 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. Three of the sets of remains were recovered from Common Grave 305 but were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns. 

In January 2019, the remains associated with Common Grave 305 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.           

To identify Pitsor’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Pistor’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

Pitsor will be buried in Ft. Bayard, New Mexico, on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at
www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Pitsor’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Llo2EAC.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Fwd: Disinterment of Korean War Unknowns - Phase 5 Delay / Update
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 17:59:30 -0500
From: Kathleen Shemeley <pow.mia.ctfmn@gmail.com>
To: Kathleen Shemeley <pow.mia.ctfmn@gmail.com>

 
Hi folks,
It doesn't make sense for the Personnel & Readiness agency to be able to interfere with a plan to disinter the Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl by DPAA which has reached Phase 5.   How did P & R justify this determination?  We'll forward the updates from the Coalition of Families as we receive them.  
Kathy

 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Coalition of Families <coalitionoffamilies2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Subject: Disinterment of Korean War Unknowns - Phase 5 Delay / Update
To: <coalitionoffamilies@gmail.com>
 

Hello All,

 

Hopefully, your winter is going well. We are sending this brief update on the recent interruption of DPAA’s disinterments of Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl/Hawaii). The Coalition is finalizing a newsletter edition that will cover the broader aspects of the issue. Look for that soon.

 

In mid-December, a DoD agency counterpart to DPAA, Personnel & Readiness, halted the phase 5 disinterments of the Punch Bowl’s Korean War Unknowns. P&R has claimed  authority over disinterments of all U.S. servicemen’s remains buried in American cemeteries, which is the ongoing broader issue to be addressed. DPAA was compelled to present a case for continuing the disinterments in an early January meeting. Family member statements were included in DPAA's presentation. A determination on the phase 5 project is expected to come in a follow up meeting between DPAA and P&R set for February 6th. We’ll keep you posted on that outcome.

 

The Coalition has reached out to a Congressional office, requesting an inquiry into the matter. More Congressional involvement will likely be needed to resolve the larger issues.

 

The Coalition’s upcoming newsletter will cover all the issues involved in this and other aspects of the recovery mission. Hold good thoughts on Phase 5. The families are represented. DPAA has added to their presentations a comment sent by the Coalition in a recent message:

 

‘It is not enough that the families/DPAA cannot access remains buried inside North Korea. We must now contend with further issues accessing remains buried in American soil.’


 

Rick
 

Richard Downes, President

Coalition of Families of Korean & Cold War POW/MIAs

 

25th Anniversary (1998-2023)
 

Join us! The Coalition pursues answers to the stories of missing American servicemen from the Korean and Cold Wars.

www.coalitionoffamilies.org

 

(A 501(3)C non-profit organization)

 

P.O. Box 4194

Pomouth, NH 0380218.259.9950

 

www.coalitionoffamilies.org

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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 30 January, 2024 09:58
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Soldier Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

MSG Crayton was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Master Sgt. Thomas Crayton, 28, of Austin, Texas, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Sep. 26, 2023.

In Nov. 1950, Crayton was a member of Alpha Battery, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He went missing in action and captured by enemy forces after his unit engaged combat actions in the vicinity of Somindong, North Korea, on Dec. 1, 1950. Shortly after he went missing, Chinese forces announced MSG Crayton had been captured as a Prisoner of War. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Crayton had been a prisoner of war and died on Feb. 11, 1951, at Prisoner of War Camp #5. His remains were not immediately recovered or identified after the war.

In 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea unilaterally turned over remains to the United States, including one set, designated Unknown X-14240. The remains were reportedly recovered from prisoner of war camps, United Nations cemeteries and isolated burial sites. None of the remains could be identified as Crayton and he was declared non-recoverable on Aug. 24, 1953. The remains were subsequently buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.

Chinese prison camp administrators moved many of their prisoners between POW Camps 1 and 5, and historical records and contemporary analysis have shown that the Chinese and North Korean recovery data has frequently proven inaccurate. In February 2020, scientists from the DPAA laboratory disinterred Unknown X-14240 from the NMCP for scientific analysis.

To identify Crayton’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph and other circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Crayton’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Crayton will be buried in Austin, Texas, on a date to be determined.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Crayton’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004qT3EAI.

From the desk of Fred Ingley,  veteran & POW/MIA advocate.

Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor identified, laid to rest more than 80 years later

Merle Hillman has been finally laid to rest after dying at Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago. (Source: WGGB)

Published: Jan. 27, 2024 at 5:20 PM EST
 

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/Gray News) - A Massachusetts native who died in the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II was finally laid to rest on Saturday.

WGGB reports it was a salute to service and sacrifice more than 80 years in the making.

Merle Hillman lost his life at 25 during the attack on Dec. 7, 1941, when the USS California was struck by multiple torpedoes and bombs.

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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 29 January, 2024 12:29
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Soldier Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

PVT Seibert was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Earl E.R. Seibert, 23, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 10, 2023.

In late 1941, Seibert was a member of Headquarters Company, 803rd Engineer Battalion (Aviation), 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.  Seibert was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death Seibert and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.

According to prison camp and other historical records, Seibert died July 27, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225.

Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) 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. Three of the sets of remains from Common Grave 225 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.

In Seibert 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

To identify Seibert’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.

Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Seibert’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

Seibert will be buried on a date and location to be determined by the family.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Seibert’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000LlxnEAC.


 
 

 
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker has officially been found and accounted for 79 years after ...

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Baltic News Network ... The Ukrainian POW monitoring body warned of active Russian information operations aimed at destabilising Ukrainian society.

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January 24, 2024
The Defense Department's POW/MIA Accounting Agency says U.S. Army Air Forces Major Theodore Willhite of Muscatine was piloting a B-24 Liberator in ...

 
Scientists from the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System have been working to identify his remains. They ...

 
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They have recently successfully moved to have Bibles taken off POW/MIA tables at VA facilities, including most recently in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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English teacher Cydney Mizell, 50, vanished in January 2008 after she was driven off the side of a road and abducted by gunmen.

 


 

On Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces Major Theodore Willhite, 26, of Muscatine, Iowa ...

 

 

 
A World War II Army Air Forces Pilot from Muscatine was accounted for in Sept. 2023 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Tuesday.

 
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 23 January, 2024 14:48
Subject: DPAA News Release - Iowa Pilot Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

Maj. Willhite was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Major Theodore Willhite, 26, of Muscatine, Iowa, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 19, 2023.

In March of 1944, Willhite was assigned to the 724th Bombardment Squadron, 451st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean and European Theater of Operations. On Mar 11, Willhite was piloting a B-24 “Liberator,” when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German position near Toulon, France. Eyewitnesses on another B-24 reported seeing Willhite’s aircraft spinning out of control at approximately 3000 feet before breaking apart and crashing into the sea. All 11 crewmembers aboard the aircraft were lost in the incident and not identified following the war.

Beginning in 1945, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. Following the war, the AGRC disinterred and identified seven sets of remains recovered from the Lagoubran Cemetery, at Toulon, France. At the time they were unable to identify Willhite and other crewmembers, and they were interred in the Rhône American Cemetery.

In 2019, DPAA investigators and American Battle Monuments Commission personnel exhumed the remains of X-84 Luynes, X-85 Luynes, X-86 Luynes, and X-92 Luynes and sent them to the DPAA laboratory for analysis and identification.

To identify Willhite’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Willhite’s name is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at Rhône American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Draguignan, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Willhite will be buried at a place and time to be determined by the family.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

Willhite’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001kgHrgEAE.

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The POW/MIA Hot Air Balloon Team getting ready for their special portion of the event.

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPPA). FBI raids multiple locations in Pasco County. The DPAA said the Germans found nine sets of remains at the crash ...
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The Albuquerque, N.M.-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation is claiming victory in requesting the removal of a Bible from the POW/MIA table at ...

 
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He commanded two units in Vietnam, winning the Silver Star for action during the battles around Dong Ap Bia (Hamburger Hill) during the summer of 1969 ...

 
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From: DR.DAVE THOMPSON <dr.dave.psam@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 at 02:43:20 PM PST
 
Subject: AIR MUSEUM POW/MIA EVENT SAT SEPT 21, 2024

 

Happy New Year......

The third Friday in September is National POW/MIA Recognition Day.

This year the Palm Springs Air Museum will be holding its sixth annual POW/MIA event on that Saturday evening.

 SATURDAY EVENING - SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

 

5:30 - Check-in (enter Miles Hangar south parking lot entrance)

6:00 - National Anthem and Prayer Service

6:15 – Introductions – Steve Frank (Co-founder of the ViVA

          POW/MIA Bracelet Program)

6:30 – Program-

          Featured Speaker:

Colonel Lee Ellis – Former USAF POW and Author of “Captured by Love”.

Inspiring True Romance Stories from Vietnam POWs.

           https://www.powromance.com/                                                                                                              

7:30 - Social Gathering (wine and appetizers served by LULU of Palm Springs) and Book Signing.


Here is the link to a five-minute highlight edit of the 2023 Event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tvFN3EPltQ  
                                                                                                                

 POWs, POW/MIA/KIA family members and bracelet donors will be in attendance. Cost: 20.00

Attire - Evening Casual (Men – shirt & slacks) (Ladies – something cool)

 
Please let me know if you:

(a) Plan to attend (number of guests)

(b) Might attend

(c) Unable to attend

(d) Need a hotel room

 

Dr. Dave Thompson 

Palm Springs Air Museum

POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator

Lt. Commander U.S. Navy (1964-1970)

DR.DAVE.PSAM@GMAIL.COM  

760-328-0859  760-408-7660

10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 18 January, 2024 14:07
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Tanker Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

SSG Could was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Leroy C. Cloud, 24, of Thrall, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug 29, 2023.

 

In July 1944, Cloud was assigned to Company A, 744th Tank Battalion, as a crew member of an M5A1 Stuart light tank. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces at Saint-Germain-d’Elle, France, on July 26 when his tank was struck by an enemy shoulder-fired rocket. Two crewmembers were able to escape the vehicle, but Cloud and another Soldier were never seen or heard from again. Due to strong enemy artillery fire and intense combat, surviving crewmembers were unable to recover Could’s remains. He was declared missing in action, but the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. On Aug 16, with no evidence Cloud survived the fighting, the War Department issued a report of death.

 

Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. On July 30, 1944, AGRC personnel recovered two sets of remains from an M5A1 destroyed in the vicinity of Saint-Lô. Ultimately, they could not identify the remains, designated X-141 and X-142 St. Laurent, and they were interred in the Normandy American Cemetery, France.

 

While studying unresolved American losses in the Saint-Germain-d’Elle area, a DPAA historian determined that the M5A1 Stuart tank recovered from the area belonged to Company A, where Cloud was assigned. This correlation led DPAA and American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) personnel to exhume the remains of X-141 and X-142 in April 2018 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis and identification.

 

To identify Cloud’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.

 

Cloud’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

 

Cloud will be buried in Taylor, Texas, on a date to be determined.

 

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

 

DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.

 

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

 

Cloud’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001eAuLZEA0.

 
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The remains of a Valdosta soldier killed during the Korean War were recently identified, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:46:56 +0000
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After Weeks of Searching, Military Says Remains of 8th Airman Killed in Japan Osprey Crash Can't Be Found
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 Inside a POW Camp for Russian Soldiers in Ukraine

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Jan 14, 2024

'Light bulb moment' New DNA method solves century-old ‘mystery’ disappearance of WWI veteran
 

The almost century-old disappearance of a WWI veteran has been solved, allowing surviving family members to finally lay him to rest.

Subject: FW: DPAA News Release - Georgia Soldier Accounted for from Korean War
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:48:24 -0500
From: moehog@verizon.net
To: moehog@verizon.net
 

Master Sargent Burrow – father of Gloria Johnson, of Valdosta Georgia and RIDE HOME participant is planning services later this month. We will pass along information as we receive it.

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 17 January, 2024 10:46
Subject: DPAA News Release - Georgia Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

Greetings,

MSG Barrow was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.

----------

 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roy E. Barrow, 39 of Valdosta, Georgia, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Sept. 22, 2023.

In the winter of 1950, MSG Barrow was a member of King Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 12 after his unit was attacked by enemy forces as they attempted to withdraw near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.

In 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea unilaterally turned over remains to the United States, including one set, designated Unknown X-15869 Operation Glory. The remains were reportedly recovered from prisoner of war camps, United Nations cemeteries and isolated burial sites. None of the remains could be identified as Barrow and he was declared non-recoverable on Jan. 16, 1956. The remains were subsequently buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. 

In 2013, DPAA disinterred X-15869, and after a decade of scientific advances and increased historical research, DPAA was able to positively associate X-15869 to Barrow.

To identify Barrow’s remains, scientists from DPAA used chest radiograph comparison, dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

MSG Barrow’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

MSG Barrow will be buried in Valdosta, Georgia, on January 27, 2024.

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.

To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

MSG Barrow’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000003tGKQEA2.

January 14, 2024
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Subject: How POWs Tried to Escape North Vietnam with Help from the Navy SEALS
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:52:23 +0000
From: John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com>

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Operation Thunderhead would be America's last rescue mission in the Vietnam War. ... Photo of a U.S. Navy SEAL surfacing from a dive. SEALs and UDT ...
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Marine Veteran Ethan Hertweck Died Helping Ukraine. Now, His Family Begins the Daunting Task of Bringing Him Home.

 
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    01/09/2024

Paul Whelan was arrested in 2018 and is currently serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges at the remote IK-17 camp in Mordovia, southeast of Moscow.


 

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January 9, 2024
The last time Joe Brindley saw his big brother, Kenyon, was in 1941. The younger Brindley recalled Kenyon's generosity at leaving his siblings his ...
This mission is conducted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which continually searches for over 83,000 unaccounted-for service members across ...
January 5, 2024
Years later, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency determined that remains designated Unknown X-9441 and X-9442 Frankfurt Mausoleum, buried in ...

 
Parker is a Gold Star family member and will speak on the efforts of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), in the recovery and ...
December 30, 2023
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this month that U.S. Army Pvt. Robert L. A. Hurst, 21, of Wabasso, Florida, ...
Alan J. Micklin is a Vietnam War veteran on a mission — to make the 2019 law requiring the POW/MIA flag fly on federal buildings a reality.

 
This homecoming was made possible thanks to the relentless pursuit of individuals at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) who are tasked ...
 
 
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American POWs were abandoned in North Korea.  Some may still be alive.

(No American President has ever asked North Korea for an accounting.)


 

SIGN...
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(The return of remains is a secondary priority.)


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(The facts speak for themselves.)

 

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(POW/MIA experts and scholars also address the Vietnam War)

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American POWs in North Korea?

   Award-winning documentary reveals an      unprecedented American tragedy

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