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Stories and Press Releases below chart |
Research sites:
www.kpows.com
http://www.kpows.com/thezimmerleereports.html
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FCC |
Daniel F. Harris |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
2/11/2020 |
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Pvt. |
James J. Cansler |
U.S. Army |
Company C, 1st
Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry
Division |
12/19/1944 |
Hürtgen Forest,
Germany |
2/11/2020 |
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MMC |
Lada Smisek |
U.S. Navy |
Naval Ammunition
Depot and Submarine Base, Cavite, Philippine Islands |
9/28/1942 |
Philippines |
2/4/2020 |
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Cpl. |
Oscar E. Koskela |
U.S. Marine Corps |
Headquarters Company,
29th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division |
6/18/1944 |
Saipan |
2/4/2020 |
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Pfc. |
Royal L. Waltz |
U.S. Marine Corps |
Company A, 1st
Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division |
11/20/1943 |
Tarawa |
2/4/2020 |
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Seaman 1st Class |
Warren C. Gillette |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/29/2020 |
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Seaman 2nd Class |
Cecil H. Thornton |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/29/2020 |
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FIreman 2nd Class |
Martin D. Young |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/28/2020 |
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Fireman 2nd Class |
William P. Kubinec |
U.S. Navy |
USS West Virginia |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/27/2020 |
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Hospital Apprentice
1st Class |
John M. Mulick |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/27/2020 |
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Seaman 1st Class |
Joe R. Nightingale |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/27/2020 |
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Fireman 1st Class |
Dan E. Reagan |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/27/2020 |
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Fireman 2nd Class |
Joseph W. Carroll |
U.S. Navy |
USS Oklahoma |
12/7/1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
1/27/2020 |
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Cpl. |
Arthur C. Ramirez |
U.S. Army |
Battery B, 57th Field
Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division |
12/6/1950 |
North Korea |
1/22/2020 |
3/19/2020 |
Marana, Arizona |
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Pvt. |
Pearl F. Barrow |
U.S. Army |
Company F, 12th
Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division |
11/20/1944 |
Hürtgen, Germany |
1/16/2020 |
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Gunnery Sgt. |
Arthur B. Summers |
U.S. Marine Corps |
Company I, 3rd
Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division,
Fleet Marine Force |
11/23/1943 |
Tarawa |
1/6/2020 |
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Sgt. |
John V. Phillips |
U.S. Army |
Headquarters Company,
31st Infantry Regiment |
7/27/1942 |
Philippines |
12/16/2019 |
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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. |
We asked why so many of these are being re-announced 2-3 times increasing news forwards and confusion.
03/22/19
These are being published with the full information, while the initial notification only contains basic information. The updates are providing information on the loss, recovery and identification, as well as funeral information if it is available at the time.
I hope this helps,
SFC Kristen Duus
Chief of External Communications
Public Affairs NCOIC- D.C. Directorate
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 17 February, 2020 09:07
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: NEWS RELEASE: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to Speak with
Families in Portland
Dear
Editor,
Feb. 17,
2020
DoD to
Inform Families of POW/MIA in Las Vegas
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) announced today
that personnel
from their agency, the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System,
and Service
Casualty Offices will be in Portland, Oregon, Feb. 22, 2020, to
meet with
families whose loved ones are unaccounted for from our modern
conflicts ranging
from the Vietnam War and the Cold War to World War II.
Family members
interested in attending can register at
www.dpaa.mil/Families/Family-Events or call (703)
699-1420/1193.
Family
members will be briefed on what DPAA and their partners are doing to
bring
their loved ones home. Families will have the chance to honor their
missing
loved one in a Remembrance Ceremony. There will also be the chance
for
families to have two-way conversations with casualty officers from the
military
services and other government specialists so they can ask specific
questions about their loved ones' loss.
The
Department of Defense is committed to keeping families of the missing
and the
public informed about the efforts being made to account for our U.S.
personnel. Throughout the year, DPAA specialists meet with hundreds of
family
members in Washington, D.C.; Hawaii; Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska;
Dover
Air Force Base, Delaware; and major metropolitan areas across the
country.
These meetings are designed to address the individual needs of the
family
members.
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 call
(703) 699-1420/1193.
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Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420
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NON COMBAT CASUALTIES - MISSING
https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/news/uss-thresher-documents-up-for-declassification
In 1963, the nuclear powered USS Thresher
submarine sank to the bottom of the sea with all 129 hands lost off of
the Eastern Seaboard. Several days later, after hope for a recovery had
been abandoned, President Kennedy ordered that flags be flown at half
staff in respect for the submariners.
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 February, 2020 13:05
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: USS Oklahoma Sailor From Oregon Accounted For From World War II
Dear
Editor,
Feb. 13,
2020
WASHINGTON-The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Navy
Fire Controlman
1st Class Robert L. Corn, 24, of Baker City, Oregon,
killed during
World War II, was accounted for on Jan. 29, 2019.
On Dec.
7, 1941, Corn 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 Corn.
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, known as the Punchbowl, in
Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could
not
be
identified as non-recoverable, including Corn.
In April
2015, the Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a policy memorandum
directing the disinterment of unknowns associated with the USS Oklahoma.
On
June 15,
2015, DPAA personnel began exhuming the remains from the Punchbowl
for
analysis.
To
identify Corn's remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and
dental
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.
Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
used
Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Corn's
name is recorded on 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.
DPAA is
grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs for their partnership
in this
mission.
For
family and funeral information, contact the Navy Casualty Office at
(800)
443-9298.
Corn will be buried
May 1, 2020, at the Punchbowl.
For
additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account
for
missing Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the
DPAA
website at
www.dpaa.mil, find us on
social media at
www.dpaa.mil/dodpaa
or call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Corn's
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeKsEAK
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 February, 2020 12:05
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: USS Oklahoma Sailor From Michigan Accounted For From World War
II
Dear
Editor,
Feb. 13,
2020
WASHINGTON-The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Navy
Seaman 1st Class
Edward Wasielewski, 21, of Detroit, killed during
World War II, was
accounted for May 15, 2019.
On Dec.
7, 1941,
Wasielewski 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 Wasielewski.
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, known as the Punchbowl, in
Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could
not
be
identified as non-recoverable, including Wasielewski.
Between
June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma
Unknown
remains from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To
identify Wasielewski's remains, scientists from DPAA used
anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.
Additionally,
scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used
Y-chromosome
STR DNA
(Y-STR) analysis.
Wasielewski name is recorded on 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.
DPAA is
grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of
the Navy
for their partnership in this mission.
For
family and funeral information, contact the Navy Casualty Office at
(800)
443-9298.
Wasielewski will be
buried Feb. 21, 2020, in San Diego.
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 call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Wasielewski's personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xg9aEAC.
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 February, 2020 14:01
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Kansas Marine Accounted For From World War II
Dear
Editor,
Feb. 7,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Marine Corps Reserve
Pfc. Raymond Warren, 21, of Silverdale,
Kansas,
killed during
World War II, was accounted for on June 10, 2019.
In
November 1943,
Warren was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th
Marine Regiment,
2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed
against stiff
Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa
Atoll of the
Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over
several
days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and
Sailors
were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, while the Japanese
were
virtually annihilated. Warren died between the first and second day of
battle,
Nov. 20-21, 1943. He was reported to have been buried in the
Division
Cemetery, which was eventually renamed to Cemetery #27.
In 1946,
the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company centralized all
of the
American remains found on Tarawa at Lone Palm Cemetery for later
repatriation. However, almost half of the known casualties were never
found.
No
recovered remains could be associated with Warren, and, in October 1949,
a Board
of Review declared him "non-recoverable."
In 2015, History
Flight, Inc., a nonprofit organization, notified DPAA that
they discovered a
burial site on Betio Island and recovered the remains of
what they
believed to be missing American service members who had been
buried in
Cemetery #27. The remains were accessioned into the DPAA
laboratory.
To
identify Warren's remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. Additionally,
scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used
mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA)
and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Warren's
name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National
Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific along with the others killed or lost in
WWII. A
rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been
accounted for.
Warren will be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
The date has yet to be determined.
DPAA is grateful
to the Republic of Kiribati and History Flight, Inc. for
their partnership
in this mission.
For
family and funeral information, contact the Marine Corps Casualty Office
at (800)
847-1597.
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 call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Warren's
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ECZ0GEAX.
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 February, 2020 07:01
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Illinois Soldier Accounted For From Korean War
Dear Editor,
Feb. 6, 2020
WASHINGTON— The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Master Sgt.
Harold F. Drews, 21, of Elgin, Illinois, killed during the Korean War,
was accounted for Nov. 5, 2019.
In December 1950,
Drews was
assigned to King Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th
Infantry Division. For several days, his unit was engaged in intense
fighting with the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces near the Chosin
Reservoir in North Korea. Drews went missing in action on Dec. 12,
1950. His remains could not be recovered.
On July 27, 2018,
following the
summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader
Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to
contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean
War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam,
Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA
laboratory for identification.
To identify Drews’ 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) and autosomal DNA
(auSTR) analysis.
Drews’ name is recorded on
the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the
Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are missing from the
Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has
been accounted for.
For family and funeral
information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
Drews
will be buried Feb. 19, 2020, in St. Charles, Illinois.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Drews’s personnel profile can
be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000egondEAA
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 February, 2020 07:06
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Tennessee Marine Accounted For From World War II
Dear Editor,
Feb. 6, 2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced today
that Marine Corps
Cpl. Thomas H. Cooper, 22, of
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
killed
during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 9, 2019.
In November 1943,
Cooper was a member of Company
A, 2nd Amphibious Tractor
Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed
against
stiff
Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa
Atoll
of the
Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island.
Over several
days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines
and Sailors
were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, while the Japanese
were
virtually annihilated. Cooper died on the first day of the
battle, Nov. 20,
1943. He was reportedly buried on Betio Island.
Despite the heavy casualties suffered by U.S. forces, military
success in
the battle of Tarawa was a huge victory for the U.S. military
because the
Gilbert Islands provided the U.S. Pacific Fleet a platform from
which to
launch assaults on the Marshall and Caroline Islands to advance
their
Central Pacific Campaign against Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S.
service members
who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield
cemeteries on
the island. The 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company
conducted
remains recovery operations on Betio between 1946 and 1947, but
Cooper's
remains were not identified. All of the remains found on Tarawa
were sent to
the Schofield Barracks Central Identification Laboratory for
identification
in 1947.
In March 1980, the
Central Identification Laboratory, a predecessor to DPAA,
sent
officials to Betio Island to receive skeletal remains that had
been
recovered
during a construction project. Of the three sets recovered, two
were
identified. The third was declared unidentifiable and was
subsequently
buried in
the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the
Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In 2016, DPAA disinterred the remains of 94 Tarawa Unknowns from
the NMCP
for identification. The remains were consolidated and sent to
the laboratory
for analysis.
To identify Cooper's remains, scientists from DPAA used dental
and
anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the
Armed Forces
Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and
Y-chromosome DNA
(Y-STR) analysis.
Cooper's name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the
Punchbowl
along with the others missing from WWII. A rosette will be
placed next to
his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs for their
partnership
in this recovery.
For family and funeral information, call the Marine Corps
Casualty Office at
800-847-1597.
Cooper will be buried at Arlington
National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
The date has yet to be determined.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Cooper's personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XdjbEAC
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 4 February, 2020 13:46
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: USS West Virginia Sailor from Kansas Accounted For From World
War II
Dear
Editor,
Feb. 4,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Navy Fireman 1st
Class Hadley I. Heavin, 23, of Baxter Springs, Kansas,
killed during
World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 17, 2019.
On Dec.
7, 1941, Heavin
was assigned to the battleship USS West Virginia,
which was moored
at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by
Japanese aircraft.
The USS West Virginia sustained multiple torpedo hits,
but
timely counter-flooding measures taken by the crew prevented it from
capsizing, and it came to rest on the shallow harbor floor. The attack
on
the ship
resulted in the deaths of 106 crewmen, including Heavin.
During
efforts to salvage the USS West Virginia, Navy personnel recovered
the
remains of the deceased crewmen, representing at least 66 individuals.
Those
who could not be identified, including Heavin, were interred as
unknowns
at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the
Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
From
June through October 2017, DPAA, in cooperation with cemetery
officials, disinterred 35 caskets, reported to be associated with the
USS
West
Virginia from the Punchbowl and transferred the remains to the DPAA
laboratory.
To
identify Heavin's remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and
anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material
evidence.
Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
used
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA
(auSTR)
analysis.
Heavin's
name is recorded on the Walls 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.
DPAA is
grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of
the Navy
for their partnership in this mission.
For
family and funeral information, call the Navy Casualty office at (800)
443-9298.
Heavin will be buried May 23, 2020, in his
hometown of Baxter Springs, Kansas.
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 call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Heavin's
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004mnkEAA.
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 4 February, 2020 13:05
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: USS Oklahoma Sailor from Kansas Accounted For From World War II
Dear
Editor,
Feb. 4,
2020
WASHINGTON— The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Navy Fireman 1st
Class Rex E. Wise, 21, of South Haven, Kansas, killed
during World War
II, was accounted for on Oct. 17, 2019.
On Dec.
7, 1941, Wise 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 Wise.
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, known as the Punchbowl, in
Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could
not
be
identified as non-recoverable, including Wise.
Between
June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma
Unknowns
from the Punchbowl for analysis.
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To
identify Wise’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and
anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces
Medical
Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Wise’s
name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along
with the
others who are still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed
next to
his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
DPAA is
grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of
the Navy
for their partnership in this mission.
For
family and funeral information, contact the Navy Casualty office at
(800)
443-9298.
Wise will be buried April 22, 2020, in Braman,
Oklahoma.
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 call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Wise’s
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xg8SEAS.
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Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 29 January, 2020 21:43
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Arizona Soldier Accounted For From Korean War
Dear
Editor,
Jan. 29,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Army Cpl. Arthur
C. Ramirez, 19, of Pima, Arizona, killed during the
Korean War, was
accounted for Sept. 9, 2019.
In late
1950, Ramirez was a member of Battery B, 57th Field Artillery
Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on
Dec.
6, 1950,
when enemy forces attacked his unit near the Chosin Reservoir,
North
Korea. His remains could not be recovered following the attack.
On July
27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and
North
Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned
over 55
boxes purported to contain the remains of American service members
killed
during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam,
Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned
into the
DPAA laboratory for identification.
To
identify Ramirez's remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.
Additionally,
scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used
mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA),
Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Ramirez's name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National
Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are
missing
from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to
indicate
he has been accounted for.
Ramirez will be
buried March 19, 2020 in Marana, Arizona.
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,
find us on social media at
www.facebook.com/dodpaa
or call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Ramirez'
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000004OWV7EAO.
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 January, 2020 10:07
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Missouri Soldier Accounted For From World War II
Dear
Editor,
Jan. 21,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
U.S. Army Sgt.
John V. Phillips, 25, of Cassville, Misssouri, who was
captured and died
as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted
for Dec. 11,
2019.
In 1941,
Phillips was a
member of Headquarters Company, 31st Infantry
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. Phillips was among those reported captured after the surrender
of
Corregidor and 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,
Phillips 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 late 1947, the AGRS
examined
the remains in an attempt to identify them. Due to the
circumstances of the POW deaths and burials, the extensive commingling,
and
the
limited identification technologies of the time, all of the remains
could
not be individually identified. The unidentified remains were interred
as
"unknowns" in the present-day Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.
In March
2018, remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and
sent to
the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for
analysis.
To
identify Phillips' 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.
Phillips' name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila
American
Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission
(ABMC)
site along with others missing from WWII. Although interred as an
"unknown" in Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Phillips' grave was
meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the ABMC. A rosette
will be
placed
next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
DPAA is
grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their
partnership in this mission.
For
family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at
(800)
892-2490.
Phillips will be
buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,
Virginia. The
date has yet to be determined.
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 call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Phillips' personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Lm0mEAC
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
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Mystery of missing D-Day hero is solved after 75
YEARS: Body of US airman who was shot down over Normandy is finally
found and will be laid to rest on what would have been his 100th
birthday
William McGowan of Benson, Minnesota, was killed on June 6,
1944, when his P-47 Thunderbolt (left in a file image)
crashed during a mission near Moon-sur-Elle, Normandy, 13
miles from Omaha Beach. A previous survey failed to locate
his body, but now his remains have been identified and will
be buried alongside those of his comrades at the Normandy
American Cemetery (bottom inset his name on a memorial in
the village of Moon-sur-Elle). Lt McGowan (top inset and
right during training) was on a low-level strafing and
bombing mission south of the landing beaches when he
crashed, according to the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford.
As he pulled up from a bombing run, he was hit by
anti-aircraft fire and went into a spin at low altitude. He
was not yet 24. His family said that the news of the
discovery of his remains 75 years later was their 'greatest
joy'.
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 16 January, 2020 12:48
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Iowa Soldier Accounted For From World War II
Dear
Editor,
Jan. 16,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Army Pvt. Roy
Brown, Jr., 22, of Des Moines, Iowa, killed during World
War II, was
accounted for on May 13, 2019.
On Dec.
2, 1942, Brown was a member of Company I, 126th Infantry Regiment,
32nd
Infantry Division, when his unit was forced into intense engagement
with
Japanese forces in the vicinity of Soputa-Sanananda Track in the
Australian Territory of Papua (present-day Papua New Guinea). Brown was
reported
missing and presumed dead when he could not be accounted for by his
unit.
On Feb.
2, 1943, the remains of an unidentified American Soldier were
interred
at the U.S. Temporary Cemetery Sanananda #2. On April 6, 1943, the
remains,
designated Unknown X-72 were reinterred at Temporary Cemetery #1 at
Soputa,
then moved them to U.S. Armed Forces Finschhafen #2, where they were
redesignated X-1086.
In 1947,
the American Graves Registration service exhumed approximately
11,000
graves, including X-1086, and sent the remains to the Central
Identification Point at the Manila Mausoleum in the Philippines. X-1086
could
not be identified and were interred at Fort McKinley (now the Manila
American
Cemetery and Memorial).
In May
2017, Unknown X-1086 was disinterred, and the remains were sent to
the DPAA
laboratory in Offutt, Nebraska, for analysis.
To
identify Brown'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.
Brown's
name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American
Cemetery
and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) site
along
with the others missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to
his name
to indicate he has been accounted for.
DPAA is
grateful to the ABMC for their partnership in this mission.
Brown will be buried
in his hometown.
The date has yet 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, find us on social media at
www.facebook.com/dodpaa
or call
(703) 699-1420.
Brown's
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xg70EAC
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 16 January, 2020 10:58
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: California Soldier Accounted For From World War II
Dear
Editor,
Jan. 16,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Army Pvt. Charlie
M. Waid, 26, of Chico, California, killed during
World War II, was
accounted for July 24, 2019.
In 1942,
Waid was serving in the Medical Detachment of the 31st Infantry
Regiment
when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands. 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 taken prisoner and
sent
to
prisoner of war camps. Waid
was among those reported captured
after the
surrender of
Corregidor and 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, Waid died Nov.
19,
1942,
and was buried along with fellow prisoners in the local Cabanatuan
Camp
Cemetery in grave number 717.
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 late 1947, the AGRS
examined
the remains in an attempt to identify them. Due to the
circumstances of the POW deaths and burials, the extensive commingling,
and
the
limited identification technologies of the time, all of the remains
could
not be individually identified. The unidentified remains were interred
as
"unknowns" in the present-day Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.
In 2014,
the "unknown" remains associated with Common Grave 717 were
disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis, including one
set,
designated X-4852 Manila Mausoleum.
To
identify Waid's remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and
anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial and material
evidence.
Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
used
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Waid's
name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American
Cemetery
and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) site
along
with others missing from WWII. Although interred as an "unknown" in
Manila
American Cemetery and Memorial, Waid's grave was meticulously cared
for over
the past 70 years by the ABMC. A rosette will be placed next to
his name
to indicate he has been accounted for.
DPAA is
grateful to the ABMC for their partnership in this mission.
Waid will be
buried in Hollywood Hills, California. The date has yet 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, find us on social
media at
www.facebook.com/dodpaa
or call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Waid's
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeyoEAC
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
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From:
Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 16 January, 2020 10:18
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Illinois Soldier Accounted For From Korean War
Dear
Editor,
Jan. 16,
2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Army Cpl. William
L. Brown, 18, of Sesser, Illinois, killed during the
Korean War, was
accounted for Oct. 17, 2019.
In late
1950, Brown was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry
Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action Dec.
2,
1950, in
the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, when his unit
was
attacked by enemy forces. Following the battle, his remains could not be
recovered.
On July
27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and
North
Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned
over 55
boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members
killed
during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam,
Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned
into the
DPAA laboratory for identification.
To
identify Brown's remains, scientists from DPAA used circumstantial
evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical
Examiner
System
used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Brown's
name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National
Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are
missing
from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to
indicate
he has been accounted for.
Brown will be
buried in Mound City, Illinois. The date has yet 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, find us on social media at
www.facebook.com/dodpaa
or call
(703) 699-1420/1169.
Brown's
personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000bHu1fEAC
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P.
Everette
SFC, USA
Public
Affairs NCOIC
Outreach
and Communications
Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th
St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703)
699-1420 |
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC
USARMY DPAA OC (USA) <sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 January, 2020 14:13
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Texas Soldier Accounted For From Korean War
Dear Editor,
January 15, 2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that Army
Pfc. Junior C.
Evans, 20, of Hall County, Texas, killed during the
Korean War, was accounted for Aug. 7,
2019.
In late 1950, Evans was a
member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry
Regiment, 7th Infantry
Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec.
12, 1950, in the vicinity of
the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. However,
accurate accountability of
troops was often difficult due to the chaotic
environment and Evans likely
went missing during a battle between Nov. 27
and Dec. 6, 1950. Following
the battle, his remains could not be recovered.
On July 27, 2018, following
the summit between President Donald Trump and
North Korean Supreme Leader
Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned
over 55 boxes, purported to
contain the remains of American service members
killed during the Korean War.
The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug.
1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned
into the DPAA laboratory for
identification.
To identify Evans' remains,
scientists from DPAA used anthropological
analysis, as well as
circumstantial and material evidence. Additionally,
scientists from the Armed
Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA
(auSTR) analysis.
Evans' name is recorded on
the Courts of the Missing at the National
Memorial Cemetery of the
Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are
missing from the Korean War.
A rosette will be placed next to his name to
indicate he has been
accounted for.
Evans will be buried in Gilmer, Texas.
The date has yet 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,
find us on social media at
www.facebook.com/dodpaa
or call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Evans' personnel profile can
be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000001UwoAEAS
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420 |
01/14/2020
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA)
<sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 January, 2020 11:23
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Iowa Pilot Accounted For From World War II
Dear Editor,
Jan. 13, 2020
WASHINGTON-The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
U.S. Army
Air Forces 2nd Lt. Lowell S. Twedt, 27, of Le Grand, Iowa,
killed
during World War II, was accounted for Dec. 11, 2019.
(This identification was initially published Dec. 13, 2019.)
In the fall of 1944, Twedt was a pilot assigned to the 71st Fighter
Squadron, 1st Fighter Group. On Oct. 20, he piloted a P-38J "Lightning"
aircraft as part of an escort for a B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombing
mission
targeting oil storage tanks in Regensburg, Germany. The mission
encountered
enemy anti-aircraft fire around Bolzano, Italy. Three P-38Js, including
Twedt's, went down as a result. An eyewitness account saw Twedt's
aircraft
falling to the ground in flames, and did not see him eject. Twedt's
remains
were never recovered.
In 2017, Roland Domanig, a retired physics professor from Austria who
had
helped DPAA in the past, contacted the agency with news that he had
found
wreckage of a P-38 he believed to be Twedt's. Over the course of the
next
two years, DPAA investigated and excavated the site, recovering remains
in
September 2019 that were sent to the DPAA laboratory in Offutt,
Nebraska,
for identification.
To identify Twedt's remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and
anthropological analysis, as well as material and circumstantial
evidence.
DPAA is grateful to Roland Domanig, Armin and Lena Kanetscheider, the
Italian Carabinieri, the mayor and local government of Sarentino, Italy,
and
the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in
this
mission.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than
400,000
died during the war. Currently there are 72,643 still unaccounted for
from
World War II with approximately 30,000 assessed as possibly recoverable.
Twedt's name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Florence
American
Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta,
Italy,
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.
For family contact information, contact the Navy Service Casualty Office
at
(800) 443-9298.
Twedt will be buried in Fernly, Nevada. The date has yet to be
determined.
For future funeral information, visit
www.dpaa.mil.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Twedt's personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001EhLCAEA3
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC
USARMY DPAA OC (USA)
<sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 January, 2020 07:51
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: South Carolina Soldier Accounted For From Korean War
Dear Editor,
Jan. 13, 2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced
today
that
Army Cpl. William J. McCollum, 19, of Anderson, South Carolina,
killed
during the Korean War, was accounted for Sept. 11, 2019.
(This identification was initially published Sept. 16, 2019.)
In late 1950, McCollum was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion,
32nd
Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, 31st Regimental Combat
Team. He
was reported missing in action Dec. 2, 1950, in the vicinity of the
Chosin
Reservoir, North Korea, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces.
Following the war, his remains could not be recovered.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald
Trump and
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea
turned
over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service
members
killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base
Pearl
Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently
accessioned
into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify McCollum's remains, scientists from DPAA used
anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.
Additionally,
scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used
mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Today, 7,602 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War.
Using
modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains
that
were previously returned by Korean officials, recovered from Korea
by
American recovery teams or disinterred from unknown graves.
McCollum's name
is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial
Cemetery
of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are missing
from the
Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he
has
been accounted for.
For family information, contact the Army Casualty office at (800)
892-2490.
McCollum will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,
Virginia. The date has yet to be determined.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
McCollum's personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000001zQP1EAM
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Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA)
<sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 10 January, 2020 09:23
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Indiana Marine Accounted For From World War II
Dear Editor,
Jan. 10, 2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Marine Corps Pfc. Louis Wiesehan, Jr., 20, of Richmond, Indiana,
killed
during World War II, was accounted for on Sep. 23, 2019.
(This identification was initially published Oct. 1, 2019.)
In November 1943, Wiesehan was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th
Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff
Japanese
resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the
Gilbert
Islands in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense
fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed
and
more than 2,000 were wounded, while the Japanese were virtually
annihilated.
Wiesehan was killed on the second day of the battle, Nov. 21, 1943. His
remains were reportedly buried in Division Cemetery on Betio Island.
In 1946, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company centralized
all
of the American remains found on Tarawa at Lone Palm Cemetery for later
repatriation; however, almost half of the known casualties were never
found.
No recovered remains could be associated with Wiesehan, and in October
1949,
a Board of
Review declared him "non-recoverable."
In 2014, History Flight, Inc., a nonprofit organization, located
Cemetery
27. Excavations of the site uncovered multiple sets of remains, which
were
turned over to DPAA in 2015.
To identify Wiesehan's remains, scientists from DPAA used
anthropological
analysis, as well as material evidence. Additionally, scientists from
the
Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
analysis.
DPAA is grateful to the United States Marine Corps for their assistance
in
this mission. Additionally, DPAA is appreciative to History
Flight, Inc.,
for their partnership in this mission.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than
400,000
died during the war. Currently there are 72,639 service members still
unaccounted for from World War II with approximately 30,000 assessed as
possibly recoverable. Wiesehan's name is recorded on the Courts of the
Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others killed or lost in WWII.
A
rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been
accounted
for.
For family information, contact the Marine Corps Service Casualty office
at
(800) 847-1597.
Wiesehan will be buried April 18, 2020, in his hometown.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Wiesehan's personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmWSEA0
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Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420 |
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This
story was originally published on Oct. 29.
2019 at 10:55 a.m. It was updated on Nov.
13, 2019 and Jan. 8, 2020 at 9:31 a.m.
Battlefield crosses, which usually include
boots, rifle and helmet, at national
cemeteries in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan
were removed two years ago from Department
of Veterans Affairs cemeteries after a VA
employee interpreted a policy to prohibit
displays of weapons.
Veterans
and other advocates pushed back on the
decision, alleging the VA staffer
misunderstood the policy or was ignorant of
the iconic marker. ...
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA)
<sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 8 January, 2020 14:27
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Minnesota Pilot Accounted For From World War II
Dear Editor,
Jan. 8, 2020
WASHINGTON— The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that U.S.
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William J. McGowan, 23, of Benson,
Minnesota, killed during World War II, was accounted for
May 13, 2019.
(This identification was initially published May 22, 2019.)
In June 1944, McGowan was a member of the 391st Fighter Squadron, 366th
Fighter Group, 9th U.S. Air Force. He was killed on June 6, 1944, when
the
P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft he was piloting crashed while on a mission
near
the city of Saint-Lô, France.
In 1947, based on information provided by a French citizen, the American
Graves Registration Command (AGRC) investigated a crash site near the
village of Moon-sur-Elle that was possibly associated with McGowan’s
loss.
An AGRC investigator traveled to the site and learned from witnesses
that
the aircraft burned for more than a full day after impact and it had
been
embedded deeply into the ground. An AGRC team removed wreckage from the
impact crater but failed to locate McGowan’s remains. As a result, on
Dec.
23, 1947,
his remains were declared non-recoverable.
In 2010, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, a
predecessor to DPAA) travelled to Moon-sur-Elle to interview witnesses
and
survey the crash site. During the survey, the team found numerous pieces
of
aircraft debris and recommended the site for excavation.
In July and August 2018, a team from the St. Mary’s University Forensic
Aviation Archaeological Field School, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
excavated the site at Moon-sur-Elle, under a partnership agreement with
DPAA. The team recovered possible osseous material. The remains
were sent
to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify McGowan’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and
anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material
evidence.
DPAA is grateful to the government and people of France, especially the
village of Moon-sur-Elle, as well as St. Mary’s University Forensic
Aviation
Archaeological Field School for their partnership in this mission.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than
400,000
died during the war. Currently, there are 72,639 service members
still
unaccounted for from World War II with approximately 30,000 assessed as
possibly recoverable. McGowan’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the
Missing at the Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments
Commission site in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with the others
missing
from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has
been
accounted for.
For family information, contact the Army Service Casualty office at
(800)
892-2490.
McGowan will be buried June 26, 2020, at the Normandy American Cemetery
in
France.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
McGowan’s personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XexnEAC
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Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA)
<sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil> Sent: 8 January, 2020 08:42
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Texas Marine Accounted For From World War II
Dear Editor,
Jan. 8, 2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that
Marine Corps Reserve 1st Lt. Justin G. Mills, 25, of Galveston, Texas,
killed during World War II, was accounted for on Aug. 19, 2019.
(This identification was initially published Sept. 27, 2019.)
In November 1943, Mills was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 2nd
Marine
Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed against
stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa
Atoll
of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several
days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and
Sailors
were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, while the Japanese were
virtually annihilated. Mills was killed on the first day of the battle,
Nov.
20, 1943. His remains were reportedly buried in the Central Division
Cemetery, and later to the Lone Palm Cemetery on Betio Island.
In 1946, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company centralized
all
of the American remains found on Tarawa to Lone Palm Cemetery for later
repatriation. However, almost half of the known casualties were never
found.
No recovered remains could be associated with Mills, and, in October
1949, a
Board of
Review declared him "non-recoverable."
In 2014, History Flight, Inc., a nonprofit organization, identified a
site
correlated with the Central Division Cemetery. Excavations of the site
uncovered multiple sets of remains, which were turned over to DPAA in
2015,
where they were subsequently accessioned to the DPAA laboratory.
To identify Mills' remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. Additionally,
scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used
mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
DPAA is grateful to the United States Marine Corps for their assistance
in
this mission. Additionally, DPAA is appreciative to History Flight,
Inc.,
for their partnership in this mission.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than
400,000
died during the war. Currently there are 72,639 service members still
unaccounted for from World War II with approximately 30,000 assessed as
possibly recoverable. Mills' name is recorded on the Courts of the
Missing
at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with
the
others killed or lost in WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name
to
indicate he has been accounted for.
For family information, contact the Marine Corps Service Casualty office
at
(800) 847-1597.
Mills will be buried April 29, 2020, at Arlington National Cemetery in
Arlington, Virginia.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Mills' personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Lm4jEAC
//////
Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1420
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TEN: American hero is laid to rest
His remains were
discovered and identified this year, 52 years
after he was shot down, by personnel assigned to
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
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From: Everette, Sean P SFC USARMY DPAA OC (USA)
<sean.p.everette.mil@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 January, 2020 08:07
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: USS Oklahoma Sailor from Minnesota Accounted For From World War
II
Dear Editor,
Jan. 6, 2020
WASHINGTON- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that Navy
Seaman 2nd Class Lloyd R. Timm, 19, of Kellogg, Minnesota,
killed
during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2019.
(This identification was initially published Nov. 1, 2019.)
On Dec. 7, 1941, Timm 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 Timm.
>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, known as the Punchbowl, in
Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could
not
be identified as non-recoverable, including Timm.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma
Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Timm's remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and
anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces
Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome
DNA
(Y-STR) analysis.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the
Department of
the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than
400,000
died during the war. Currently there are 72,639 still unaccounted for
from
World War II with approximately 30,000 assessed as possibly recoverable.
Timm's name is recorded on the Walls 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.
For family information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at
(800)
443-9298.
Timm will be buried May 25, 2020 in Wabasha, Minnesota.
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 call (703) 699-1420/1169.
Timm's personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe0lEAC
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Respectfully,
Sean P. Everette
SFC, USA
Public Affairs NCOIC
Outreach and Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
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75 years ago, Glenn Miller
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The bandleader, whose music
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