AMERICANS IDENTIFIED SINCE 1989
WWII, KOREA, COLD WAR

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Jan 2005 - Dec 2005

Jan 2006 - May 2007

June 2007 - Dec 2008


Jan 2009 - June 2009

June 2009 -Dec 2010

Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Jan 2020-Dec 2020

Jan 2021 - July 2021

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

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Dec 2022

Jan 2023
 

 

 

2023
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Stories and Press Releases below chart

Research sites: 

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http://www.kpows.com/thezimmerleereports.html

RECENTLY ACCOUNTED FOR

Name Rank Conflict Service
Unit
Location Accounted for Date
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
100 FIGHTER SQUADRON 332 FIGHTER GROUP
Italy
8/10/2023
Capt
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
VMA 533 (AW) MAG 15
Vietnam
8/2/2023
GM3c
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS West Virginia; UNITED STATES NAVY
Hawaii
7/21/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
498 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 345 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (MEDIUM)
East Sepik
7/18/2023
Pfc
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
93 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 19 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Nueva Ecija
7/7/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
415 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 98 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
6/30/2023
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
C CO 1/32 REGT 7ID
South Korea
6/30/2023
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
343 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 98 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Mediterranean Sea
6/20/2023
Pfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Heavy Mortar Company, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division
South Korea
5/15/2023
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
22 INFANTRY 4 DIVISION
Germany
5/11/2023
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
678 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 444 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (VERY HEAVY)
Assam
5/11/2023
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
12 INFANTRY 4 DIVISION
Germany
5/5/2023
Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
678 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 444 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (VERY HEAVY)
Assam
5/5/2023
Flt O
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
678 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 444 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (VERY HEAVY)
Assam
5/5/2023
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
66 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 44 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
5/5/2023
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
North Korea
4/25/2023
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
7 INFANTRY 3 DIVISION
Italy
4/6/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
328 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 93 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
4/6/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
303 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY), 359 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON
France
4/6/2023
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Company 1st Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division
South Korea
4/6/2023
Pvt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
North Korea
3/30/2023
T Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
409 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 93 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
3/30/2023
Col
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
390 TFS
Vietnam
3/23/2023
Capt
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
390 TFS
Vietnam
3/23/2023
Pfc
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
13 INFANTRY 8 DIVISION
Germany
3/20/2023
S Sgt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
345 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 98 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
3/16/2023
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
North Korea
2/13/2023
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
North Korea
2/13/2023
SGT
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
L Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division
South Korea
2/8/2023
PVT
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 75 ORDNANCE DEPOT COMPANY
Nueva Ecija
2/3/2023
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
South Korea
2/3/2023
Cpl
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
B Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
North Korea
1/24/2023
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
F Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
South Korea
1/24/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
66 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 44 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
1/24/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
328 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 93 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
1/10/2023
AOM1c
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
USS Enterprise; UNITED STATES NAVY
Malakal
1/3/2023
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
345 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 98 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
Romania
1/3/2023
Sfc
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
G Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
South Korea
12/5/2022

List posted 09/04/2023

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.

 
“It's been a very long time,” Sullivan said. “He's been known as X274 for 73 years.” Once his remains were identified, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...

 
(WHTM)– The third Friday in September is POW/MIA Recognition Day. This week in the state senate one of the most famous POWs of the last 50 years ...

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

 
... POW/MIA Recognition Day · USS Cole Sinking · Veterans Day · VJ Day · Women's History Month. Daily Military Trivia. 1) The Akula-class of submarine was ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), has initiated a joint investigation starting on September 7. Their objective is to locate the remains of U.S. ...
September 22, 2023
In July 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterred Unknown X-274 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project, sending ...

 
Marine Corps Sgt. Jack Rigsby, a forensic photographer assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, clears mud from a retention pond during ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency and ten troops of the South Korean military. The project, which will go on until next week, is on course to find the ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Lewis W, Hill, 18, of Detroit, Michigan, killed during the Korean ...
2, 1948, Miklosh was declared non-recoverable. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command conducted a Joint Field Activity in October 2014 in Sapekhati, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Cpl. Lewis W. Hill was accounted for on May 22.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that the remains of a Kentucky soldier who died as a prisoner of war in World War II will ...

 
Fritz Littlefield is showing his 2006 Peterbilt 379, which is dedicated to POW/MIA service members. Jim Nalin's 2022 Freightliner Cascadia CRST ...

-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject: Fwd: B-17 Crash. HELL OF A STORY
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:04:20 -0700
From: Leon Delisle <leondelisle536@gmail.com>
 
Friends,
Recovering Wreckage From a WWII B-17 Crash Site (B-17 Crash Part 2) | History Traveler Episode 172 - YouTube

Sometimes when you do military history searches you just never know what you will find?  Then all of a sudden something draws you in? This story stirred my emotions in a good way.  Over the years those of us who have been Caretakers of the Flame fully understand our purpose. And why we do what we do. Preserving the flame of freedom for the future generations to follow. Honoring those of Exemplar qualities. Great people did great things for others that must be illuminated. The Light of leadership always defeats the darkness of despair.  We all do "it" in many different ways and formats. Passing the baton of leadership. Preserving the legacies. Mentoring our young people. End results are the same. We serve the Greater Good. This young man depicted in the documentary was an Eagle Scout who started this synergy. He had the vision to serve the greater good.  He later lost his life to a car accident. By his noble actions he inspired others.  This is a very inspiring story about people. Our very own American rank and file people who were lost in WWII. And the people who live on today. In a little rural area in Arkansas. Where these local  people honor the legacy of those who were lost in WWII in a very special way. These are not people of great wealth who contributed to creating this living Museum. They are people with great hearts and with vision to serve the greater good. They are the very brick and mortar that built the Museum. Honoring the ones who were lost. They built a museum where those brave men were lost in a crash within their B-17.  They stayed with their crippled Bomber all the way into eternity. The Souls of the ones who were lost will always have a home to rest in peace at this inspiring shrine. Their families still grieve from the loss with their loved ones from long ago. This is a generational loss that keeps crossing over and over.  One that affects the younger generations still today.  I have seen this pain some still carry today. Military Museums and Monuments were established to those who bravely led the way as a quiet place of peace and sanctuary.  A living testament of their service. With their names and ranks etched in granite. Those walls tell a story about brave people.  Silently these shrines honor the commitment of those who gave their all they had to give so mankind could live in Freedom. For all people globally. Every generation is challenged with this same dilemma. Good vs Evil. These vanguards who were volunteers. They were lost in this crash. But they were committed to meet the forces of evil in the merge. There is great nobility in the American Spirit. The American people are still our greatest resource. There is a darkness of despair creeping up and encompassing America today.  Hold To Your Purpose!  HOLD TO YOUR FAITH IN GOD. Never ever quit the fight!  Fath & your Will are a Force Multiplier! 
 

 
" Do you know what astonished me the most over the years? The Sword is always beaten by the Spirit."  - NAPOLEON

 
Pressing on!

 
Leon
 
 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class James L. Dorrance, 20 of Omaha, Nebraska, ...

 
The Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency said Sgt. 1st Class James Dorrance died as a prison of war in 1951 in North Korea. Advertisement. The 20-year ...
The remains of an 18-year-old Army corporal from Detroit who was killed in the Korean War in 1950 have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA ...

 
Some 10 South Korean military personnel, and 20 from the U.S. Forces Korea and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began the joint excavation ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency taking part in an underwater search to recover the remains of U.S. soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War. Yonhap.
September 21, 2023
... year, and his family more recently received a full briefing on his identification, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.

 
Everything recovered was sent to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Laboratory for analysis. Aiken was accounted for by the DPAA May 5, 2023 ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Cpl. Lewis W. Hill was accounted for on May 22 after agency scientists identified his remains ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Cpl. Lewis W. Hill was accounted for on May 22 after agency scientists identified ...
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Hill was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry ...

 

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that U.S. Army Cpl. Lewis W, Hill, 18, of Detroit, was accounted for on May 22.

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 September, 2023 12:55
Subject: DPAA News Release - Nebraska Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

 

Greetings,

 

Sgt 1st Class Dorrance was accounted for in May, 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 Sgt. 1st Class James L. Dorrance, 20 of Omaha, Nebraska, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for May 22, 2023.

 

In late 1950, Dorrance was a member of B Battery, 82nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery–Automatic Weapons Battalion, Division Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit’s withdrawal from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, in North Korea. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Dorrance had been a prisoner of war and died on March 17, 1951 at Prisoner of War Camp #5, Pyoktong, North Korea.

 

In the fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Camp #5, to the United Nations Command. However, Dorrance’s name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him.

 

In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In September 2019, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14402, a set of remains returned during Operation Glory, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

 

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

 

Dorrance’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific 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.

 

Dorrance will be buried in Omaha, Nebraska, 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. DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission 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, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

 

Dorrance’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004rdKEAQ.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 September, 2023 13:35
Subject: DPAA News Release - Iowa Airman Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

 

2LT Dailey was accounted for in June, 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 Air Forces 2nd Lt. Max E. Dailey, 21, of Cherokee, Iowa, killed during World War II was accounted for June 22, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, Dailey served with the 409th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Dailey was serving as a navigator, 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 Dailey’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).

Dailey’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.

Dailey will be buried in Charles City, Iowa, 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.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 September, 2023 14:21
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

 

Greetings,

Cpl. Hill was accounted for in May, 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 Cpl. Lewis W, Hill, 18, of Detroit, Michigan, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for May 22, 2023.

In July 1950, Hill was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 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-29 Taejon. A tentative association was made between X-29 and Hill, but definitive proof could not be found, and X-29 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 July 15, 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-29 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory, for analysis.

 To identify Hill’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.

Hill’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.

Hill will be buried in Imlay City, Michigan, 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.

Hill’s personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ildSCEAY.

... POW camp, where more than 2,500 POWs perished during the war. ... The remains were disinterred again in 2018 and sent to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
In 2019, Gosnell's remains were disinterred and sent to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory for analysis. Scientists were able to ...
After four project and two Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency investigations, the remains of the plane were discovered just off Malakal Island. The ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. James A. Hurt, 25, of East St. Louis, Illinois, who was captured ...

 
In March 2018, those remains were disinterred by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and sent to a DPAA laboratory for analysis. Harris was ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency Laboratory for analysis. Aiken was accounted for by the DPAA May 5, 2023, after his remains were identified using ...
September 20, 2023
Many veterans, along with other community members, gathered at the college's POW/MIA Memorial for the ceremony, just three days after National POW/MIA ...

 
Sitting with his wife, Paulette, World War II veteran and POW Gene Metcalfe was recognized by the Show Low VFW Post 9907 at the National POW/MIA ...

 
For information about missing Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA in Iraq and Afghanistan Fast Facts. Currently Detained ...

 
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Donal C. Aiken, 22, of Everett, 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Sept. 7 that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George W. Winger, 25, of Columbus, Ohio, ...

 
He was killed during World War II, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). In late 1943, Reynolds was a pilot assigned to the ...
September 20, 2023
In the summer of 2023, the remains were positively identified after being evaluated at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory in Hawaii ...

 
Sharrow's remains were positively identified in January at the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor- ...

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Waiting for Uncle Frank: 73 years later, he’s still missing — with 7,490 others in Korean War | Stars and Stripes
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:26:26 +0000
From: John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com>

  https://www.stripes.com/history/2023-09-14/still-missing-korean-war-11376291.html?utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=bc73a5e791-Newsletter+-+Military+history&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ab8697a7f-bc73a5e791-296875491
Visiting after a POW-MIA Remembrance Ceremony Saturday at the Huntsville/Madison County Veterans Memorial are, from left, Garrison Command Sgt. Maj.

 
Friday, September 15 marked this year's POW/MIA Recognition Day. In observance, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www ...

 
SEN. CRAPO: In honor of the observation of National POW/MIA Recognition Day this month, I join in raising awareness about American servicemembers ...

 
World War II veteran James F. Libfred salutes for the singing of the national anthem in 2013 facing the new POW/MIA memorial display during it's ...

 
In July 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterred Unknown X-274 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project sending ...

 
The Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency's goal is to find and identify 200 individuals a year, which they accomplished this past year.
September 19, 2023
Today, Mike is a team sergeant assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in charge of troops from nearly all branches of the military on a 25- ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Sept. 11 that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles G. Reynolds, 24, of Bridgeport, Ohio, ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Later that month, Searle's 90th Infantry Division was ordered to withdraw to help with the American effort in the ...

 
A WW2 airman missing in action for 80 years has been removed from the search-list of the USA's Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), ...

 
U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman First Class Wilbur Mitts was laid to rest in Seaside, California on Sept. 11, in advance of POW/MIA Recognition Day ...

 
As “Taps” was played by Antonio Altman, the POW/MIA and the United States flags were raised. More Z-newsletter-news. Mississippi man pleads guilty ...
 
 
 
 
September 17, 2023
Sept. 15 is national POW MIA day. More than 80000 service members that served in the last century are still unaccounted for. One of those missing ...

 

 
 

 
U.S. Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson was the first Black woman to be taken as a prisoner of war in American history back in 2003 when her ...

 
I would say we're not quite there yet,” Byrd said. Defense POW/MIA Account Agency Laboratory Director John Byrd (left) Maui County Physician's ...
September 16, 2023

 
Earlier this year Glenda Fisher of Dalton found Cressman's POW/MIA bracelet in a grab bag of jewelry items she ordered online. It arrived from a ...

 
The MIA bracelet. Several months ago, high school friend Glenda Ridley Fisher sent me a POW/MIA bracelet she found in a “grab bag” of jewelry items ...
September 15, 2023
U.S. Navy SEAL candidates run with inflatable boats on their head. Navy Looks to Punish 3 Top Officers Overseeing Navy SEAL Training After Recruit ...

 

 
 

 
And, each year, we gather on this National POW/MIA Recognition Day to assure you that we remember them and that we will not give up on our mission to ...

 

 

 
 

 
Retired Air Force Col. Michael Brazelton, a pilot and four-time Silver Star recipient, was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for nearly seven years ...

 

 

 
 

 
DOD holds solemn ceremony on National POW/MIA Recognition Day · Download the 13News Now - WVEC App.
Friday marks this year's POW/MIA Recognition Day. In observance, volunteers with the nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars are recognizing the ...
As the nation marks National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 15, approximately 7,500 American service members like Dulin are still unaccounted for ...

 
Two decades before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian without a cause ... Navy Top Admiral Nominee Asked About Promotion ...
September 14, 2023

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Albert W. Stahl, 22, killed during a bombing run over ...
September 14, 2023
Above the White House and the United States Capitol — and at military bases, memorials, cemeteries, and homes across America — we fly the POW/MIA flag ...

 
Orange Park's Mary Helen Hoff developed the iconic black and white POW/MIA flag. It will be the centerpiece as the nation observes the missing and ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 September, 2023 09:38
Subject: DPAA News Release - New York Airman Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Stahl was accounted for in September and his family 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 Air Forces 2nd Lt. Albert W. Stahl, 22, of Buffalo, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 30, 2023

In the summer of 1943, Stahl was assigned to the 329th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93d Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Stahl was the navigator 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 Stahl’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Stahl’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 others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Stahl will be buried in Kenmore, New York, in the Spring of 2024.

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.

Stahl’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pO8EAI.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 September, 2023 08:01
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Airman Accounted for from World War II

Greetings,

Tech. Sgt. Turner was accounted for in April, 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 Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Turner Y. Johnston, 21, of Loraine, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for April 25, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, Johnston was assigned to the 415th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Johnston was an engineer-gunner 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 Johnston’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.

Johnston’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.

Johnston will be buried in Belton, Texas, on Oct. 21, 2023.

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 

Johnston’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pTqEAI

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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 11 September, 2023 15:57
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Airman Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

1LT Reynolds was accounted for in July, 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 Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles G. Reynolds, 24, of Bridgeport, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 18, 2023.

In late 1943, Reynolds was a pilot assigned to the 498th Bombardment Squadron, 345th Bombardment Group, in the Southwest Pacific Theater. On November 27, the B-25D Mitchell which Reynolds was a crewmember of, did not return from its bombing mission near Wewak, New Guinea. The aircraft had sustained heavy damage from anti-aircraft fire and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters of Karau Lagoon, in the Murik Lakes. Efforts to recover Reynolds’s remains were unsuccessful, and the crew was labeled Missing In Action.

Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service, the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, conducted exhaustive searches of battle areas and crash sites in New Guinea, concluding their search in late 1948. Investigators recovered fragmentary sets of human remains near Murik, as well as wreckage that was identified as belonging to a B-25 Mitchell. The remains, designated X-4180 and X-4196, were consolidated and declared unidentifiable, and were interred at Fort McKinley Cemetery in Manila.

In 2019 a recovery team working near Murik found possible material evidence, which prompted historians and forensic anthropologists within DPAA to propose the disinterment of X-4180. By January 8, 2020, X-4180 was exhumed and sent to the DPAA Laboratory for identification.

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

Reynolds’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Reynolds will be buried in Bridgeport, 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 government of Papua New Guinea 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.

Reynolds’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001RAInTEAX.

September 10, 2023
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 8 September, 2023 10:05
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Airman Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

 

Flight Officer Rinke was accounted for in May, 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 Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke, 33, of Marquette, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.

 

In the summer of 1944, Rinke was assigned to the 678th Bombardment Squadron, 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), 58th Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Bomber Command. On June 26, Rinke while serving as the flight officer on the B-29 Superfortress crashed into a rice paddy in the village of Sapekhati, India after a bombing raid on Imperial iron and steel works at Yawata, Kyushu Island, Japan. All 11 crew members were killed instantly in the crash.

 

On June 28, 1944 a team from 342nd Service Squadron, 329th Service Group visited the crash site recovering and identifying only seven sets of remains which were interred at in United States Military Cemetery in Panitola, Assam, India and subsequently disinterred and sent to their final internment on Jan. 13, 1948. By September of that same year, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) concluded that Rinke’s remains were non-recoverable.

 

In October 2014 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (a DPAA predecessor organization) conducted a Joint Field Activity in Sapekhati, which led to the location of the crash site and the recovery of life support equipment and wreckage associated with the B29 aircraft. In 2018 and 2019, Southeastern Archaeological Research (SEARCH) a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered possible osseous remains and material evidence.

 

To identify Rinke’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.

 

Rinke will be buried at Seville, 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.

 

Rinke’s personnel profile can be seen here: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmBUEA0.

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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 September, 2023 11:31
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Pilot Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

Lieutenant Winger was accounted for in January, 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 Air Forces 1st Lt. George W. Winger, 25, of Columbus, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for January 24, 2023.

 

In the summer of 1943, Winger was assigned to the 66th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Winger was serving as the pilot 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 for examination and identification.

 

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

 

Winger’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.

 

Winger will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery 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.

 

Winger’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001MvtWgEAJ.

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 September, 2023 10:39
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Airman Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Air Force Pfc. Glenn Harris was accounted for in July, 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 Air Forces Pfc. Glenn A. Harris, 20, of Monterey, California, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for July 7, 2023.

 

In late 1941, Harris was a member of the 93rd Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, 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.  Harris 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 #1. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.

 

According to prison camp and other historical records, Harris died July 26, 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 March 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

           

To identify Harris’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, Harris’ grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

 

Harris will be buried in Bradley, California, on Sept. 29, 2023.

 

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.

 

Harris’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000ccfPEAQ.

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 September, 2023 15:01
Subject: DPAA News Release - Rhode Island Soldier Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

Private 1st Class Searle was accounted for in September, 2022, 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 Pfc. Roy J. Searle, 22, of Providence, Rhode Island, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2022.

 

In December 1944, Searle was assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. His unit crossed the Saar River on Dec. 6 and attempted for the next several days to capture and hold two heavily defended towns of Pachten and Dillingen, Germany. Searle was mortally wounded during enemy engagement on Dec. 9, and was reported to have died of his wounds. In mid-December 1944, the 90th Infantry Division was ordered to withdraw to assist the American effort in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge. The tactical situation prevented the 357th Infantry from recovering the remains of all of its fallen before relocating.

 

Searle's body was among those not recovered.

 

Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Pachten-Dillingen area from 1946 to 1950 but were unable to recover or identify Searle’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in October 1951.

 

While studying unresolved American losses in the Pachten-Dillingen area, DPAA historians analyzed documentation related to a set of unidentified remains, designated X-4650 St. Avold, recovered in 1946 from a civilian cemetery in Reimsbach, Germany., Several remains recovered from that cemetery were members of the 90th Infantry Division killed at Pachten and Dillingen, and buried by German forces after the fighting. Historians determined that the X-4650 remains could be associated with Searle. The remains, buried as an Unknown at the Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in St. Laurent, France, were disinterred in June 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification.

 

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

 

Searle’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in, St. Avold, 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.

 

Searle will be buried Sept. 13, 2023, in Lake Worth, Florida.

 

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. DPAA would also like to thank Mr. Chris Seiwert, Mr. Peter Jung, and the Verein zur Bergung Gefallener in Osteuropa e.V. (VBGO) in Germany for assistance in information related to 90th Infantry Division losses and battle sites in the Pachten-Dillingen area.

 

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.

 

Searle’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001EhJLcEAN.

 
... dedicated to repatriating the remains of an estimated 38,000 POW/MIAs classified as “recoverable” by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 
The remains of Second Lieutenant Fred L Brewer Jr, 23, were identified on August 10, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) ...
Baty was accounted for ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sergeant Stanley Turba, 27, of Russellton, Pennsylvania, killed during ...

 
Vietnam POW homecoming The United States will observe National POW/MIA Recognition Day Friday, September 15 to honor Americans who were either ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Glenn A. Harris, 20, of Monterey, California, ...

 
1st Class Thomas F. Brooks of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, was just 23 years old when he died as a prisoner of war on Dec. 10, 1942, the Defense POW/MIA ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas Franklin Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave, who was captured and ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that U.S. Army Pfc. ... More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
September 7, 2023
... 1944 while his crew was flying over enemy military targets on the Palau Islands, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).

September 6, 2023

That announcement was made by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Tuesday. “It is heartbreaking to learn about this loss, but we are thankful for ...

 
... Captain Frederick Hall will be laid to rest in his hometown of Waynesville on Oct. 10, 2023. (Photo credit: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency).
September 6, 2023
Broussard resident Jeremy Thibodeaux, a Silver Star recipient and former staff sergeant, flight engineer and door gunner in the U.S. Army Special ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Tuesday that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, ...

 
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPPA), Second Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr. went missing on Oct. 19, 1944, while on a bomber escort ...

 
The remains of Second Lieutenant Fred L Brewer Jr, 23, were identified on August 10, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Private First Class Thomas F. Brooks of Mammoth Cave was accounted for on June 20th.
Joint service EOD technicians serve as an integral part of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and support investigation and recovery ...
Froemke's remains were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in 2022. Froemke graduated from Yakima High School and the State ...
Bock said that Searle's remains were accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Sept. 27, 2022. Boynton Memorial Chapel will perform ...

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 September, 2023 15:54
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kentucky Tanker Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

 U.S. Army PFC Thomas Brooks was accounted for in June, 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 Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for June 20, 2023.

In late 1942, Brooks was a member of the Company D, 194th Tank Battalion, US Army Forces Far East, 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.  Brooks 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, Brooks died Dec. 10, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 917.

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 917 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.

In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 917 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

To identify Brooks’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, Brooks’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

Brooks will be buried on October 01, 2023, in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

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.

Brooks’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XiGLEA0

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 September, 2023 10:18
Subject: DPAA News Release - North Carolina Pilot Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

U.S. Army Air Forces 2LT Fred Brewer 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 Air Forces 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., 23, of Charlotte, North Carolina, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 10, 2023.

In late 1944, Brewer was a pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, in the European Theater. On Oct. 19, Brewer departed Ramitelli Air Base, Italy, as one of 57 fighters assigned to escort bombers to their targets in Regensburg, Germany. While enroute to their targets, the bomber group encountered heavy cloud cover over the Udine area of Italy, which forced several escort fighters to return early. According to another pilot witness, Brewer had attempted a steep climb to get above the cloud cover, which caused the engine of his P-51C Mustang, Traveling Light, to stall. It was reported Brewer’s aircraft had rolled over with the canopy jettisoned, but he was not observed ejecting from the plane. Brewer’s remains were not recovered, and he was subsequently declared missing in action.

In 2011, researchers discovered that an Italian resident of Moggio Udinese, Italy, used airplane wreckage found at a nearby crash site to create a memorial to fallen Americans who died during World War II. Around the same time, researchers analyzed the file for Unknown Remains X-125 Mirandola (X-125), which had been recovered but not identified from the Moggio Udinese civilian cemetery by American forces in 1946. These remains, unable to be identified at the time, were then interred at the Florence American Cemetery, Italy.

In 2022, DPAA and the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) exhumed Unknown Remains X-125 for forensic analysis. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.

To identify Brewer’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) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.

Brewer’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an ABMC 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.

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.

Brewer’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000009CEtjEAG

Chief Warrant Officer John A. Austin, who perished saving his shipmates' lives, was awarded the Navy Cross. Lt. Commander Hugh Alexander, ...

 
 

 
10, 1942, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. Brooks was a member of the Company D, 194th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army Forces Far East.
Dear Editor: Friday, September 15, 2023 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The observance is to honor and recognize the sacrifices of those ...

 
 

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said they identified U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky on June 20, 2023.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman First Class Wilbur A. Mitts, 24, of Seaside, ...

In partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Project Recover recovered MIAs from the Avenger during their first MIA Recovery ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, ...

 

 
 

 
This is a day where we remember those who were prisoners of war (POW) and those who have been missing in action (MIA), across our different branches ...

 
Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., pilot from WWII. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Brewer was flying with 56 other pilots to protect bombers from enemy fire ...

 

 
 

 
"(Jury) was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Feb. 10, 2022, after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence as ...

 

 
 

 
Second Lt. Fred Brewer Jr. was declared MIA after a crash during a bomber mission over Germany. ... Credit: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency(WASHINGTON) -- The remains of a Tuskegee pilot have been identified, 79 years after he went missing during World ...

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 September, 2023 09:28
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Pilot Accounted for from World War II

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Air Forces 2LT Edward Barnett was accounted for in May, 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 Air Forces 2nd Lt. Edward Barnett, 24, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II was accounted for May 5, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, Barnett served with the 66th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Barnett 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 at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.

To identify Barnett’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) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.

Barnett’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.

Barnett’s funeral will be in Arlington National Cemetery, 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.

Barnett’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001MvtWbEAJ.

September 4, 2023
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says he's Army PFC Arthur Barrett. He was stationed in the Philippines in late 1941 when ...

 
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. RALEIGH. Fred L. Brewer Jr., a native of Charlotte and graduate of Shaw University in Raleigh, climbed into a ...

 

 
 

 
The Pentagon and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Brewer's identity was confirmed on Aug. 10, 2023. Brewer went missing while piloting ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air. By. WRAL Staff. The US Military has identified the remains of a ...
September 3, 2023
Last month, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) said it had concluded that previously unidentified remains recovered from northern Italy ...
Soldier Accounted for From Korean War (Gosnell, A.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Albert A.
September 2, 2023
The Silver Star, one of Taylor's many awards, is one of the military's top honors for valor in combat. But to his supporters, that medal represented a ...

 
Taylor had been awarded a Silver Star, one of the military's top honors for valor in combat.

 
The Army awarded him at least 50 combat decorations, including the Silver Star, 43 Air Medals, a Bronze Star and two Distinguished Flying Crosses, ...

 
... missing in action during World War II was recently accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in a release on Thursday.

 
Rolling Thunder's primary purpose is to publicize POW-MIA issues, to educate the public that many American Prisoners of War were left behind after all ...

 
In a press release sent to The City Sentinel (Oklahoma City), the U.S. Navy POW/MIA communications staff wrote recently:

 
He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Feb. 10, 2022, after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence as ...

 
Positive identification was confirmed in 2022, by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. 2LT Litherland's military awards and decorations include:.
... cross — the Navy or Air Force Cross or the Distinguished Service Cross ... The service crosses sit just below the Medal of Honor in individual ...

 
... warrant award of a DSC [Distinguished Service Cross] to an individual. ... The Department of the Navy has announced the following Marine Corps ...
... went missing in action during World War II was recently accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in a release on Thursday.
September 1, 2023
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Pvt. Daniel Moniz, 19, of Hayward, California, killed during World War II, ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., killed during World War II, ...

 
It's great to see so many American flags displayed around the community. What's even better is to see POW/MIA flags flown as well.

 
After four project and two Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency investigations, the remains of the plane were discovered just off Malakal Island.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Willie J. Baty, 20, of Mexia, Texas, killed during the Korean War ...
August 31, 2023
X-452's case was closed on 1950 before being reopened again in 2019, with the The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency taking over the investigation, ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Edward T. McGuire, 22, of Chicago, Illinois, ...
For the first time in years, the flagpole outside the Ashland County building will not fly the black POW/MIA flag underneath Old Glory.

 
More than 2,500 died at Cabanatuan camp during the war, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. GERMAN CURATOR'S MISSION IS TO RETURN ...
On Friday, Sept. 15, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas will host a presentation by Lt. Col. David B.

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Irving R. Newman, 22, of Los Angeles, California, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been searching for remains of U.S. military members in 45 nations.

 
Army Pfc. Arthur Barrett Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Barrett was among thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members captured and held at ...

 
... then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp, where more than 2,500 POWs ... and sent to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) laboratory at ...

 
... from the crash site two years earlier, were sent to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base for analysis.
August 30, 2023
Johnie Webb, who began his career at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) in 1994 and retired from the same agency in December 2022 as its ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says he was among thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members captured and held at prisoner of war camps.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/08/29/horrible-homeless-veterans-are-being-buried-paupers-graves-near-fort-moore.html?ESRC=eb_230830.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20230830
 

'This Is Horrible': Homeless Veterans Are Being Buried in Paupers' Graves Near Fort Moore

.....Liddell walked around the pauper section of Porterdale Cemetery as thunder rumbled, lightning cracked and rain poured down from the dark gray clouds above.
A somber scene for a final resting place.
"This is heart wrenching," Liddell said as she stood over the grave of one former soldier. "He served to give us the right to stand here, and look at how he's buried."
"I'm having real issues right now," Liddell went on to say. "It makes you want to cry, and I'm trying to hold back the tears."
Liddell said she believes that Columbus should have its own national cemetery due to the large number of veterans that live in the area.
As Liddell walked through the cemetery she kept repeating one phrase, "This is horrible.".....
 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12458275/Paul-Whelan-video-Russian-prison.html


Ex-US Marine Paul Whelan is seen on video for the first time in THREE YEARS as Russian state-funded media releases clip of him in prison penal colony
 

Whelan, 53, who has Canadian and US citizenship, was shown at a Russian max-security prison in footage filmed by Kremlin-backed channel Russia Today. Whelan traveled to the Russian capital for a friend's wedding in 2018, but he was arrested there and sentenced to 16 years in jail following a closed trial. He is recognized as 'wrongfully detained' by the US government. His family, who have not seen him since he was jailed in June 2020, said they were glad to see 'the fight remains in his eyes'. In RT footage filmed in May but only just released, he is shown queuing with fellow inmates in the prison yard, stitching together clothing in a factory, and sitting with a tray of gray-looking food in a canteen. He is also approached by the RT camera crew but refuses to do an interview...

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Byrd is the laboratory director of the Defense Departmentʻs POW/MIA Accountability Agency, headquarted at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

 
August 27, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12450281/Archaeologists-unearth-evidence-mass-execution-German-prisoners-forced-dig-graves-shot-dead-French-resistance-D-Day.html


 

French and German archaeologists dug a site near the small central French town of Meymac over eight days following harrowing testimony from the last surviving witness to the massacre

 
Principal Deputy Director Dr. Fern Sumpter Winbush of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency addresses a question asked by American Legion National ...

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 1 September, 2023 08:19
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Soldier Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Moniz was accounted for in May, 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 Army Pvt. Daniel Moniz, 19, of Hayward, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.

In November 1944, Moniz was assigned to Medical Detachment, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was killed in action on Nov. 11. Due to the tactical situation, his remains could not be immediately recovered.

Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to recover or identify Moniz’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in December 1951.

While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-8122 St. Avold, recovered from Germeter and Hürtgen possibly belonged to Moniz. The remains, which had been buried in Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Saint-Avold, France, in 1949, were disinterred in 2018 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification. While analyzing X-8122, DPAA scientists also examined X-8118 St. Avold, had been recovered commingled with X-8122.

To identify Moniz’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), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.

Moniz’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, 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.

Moniz will be buried in Hayward, California, on September 29, 2023.

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.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 August, 2023 13:42
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Sgt. Willie J. Baty was accounted for in February, 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 Sgt. Willie J. Baty, 20, of Mexia, Texas, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 8, 2023.

In the fall of 1950, Baty was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Sept. 14 when his unit was forced to withdraw from the Masan area of the Pusan Perimeter, South Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953, and his remains were determined to be nonrecoverable on Jan. 16, 1956.

The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps (AGRSG) was responsible for recovering, identifying, and repatriating those lost during the Korean War.  In late 1950 they recovered a set remains designated as Unknown X-159 near Masan. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-159 the remains were declared unidentifiable. In Dec. 1950, the remains 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. In March 2019, DPAA disinterred X-159 as part of Phase One of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.

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

Baty’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.

Baty will be buried in Dallas, Texas, on Sept. 15, 2023.

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.

Baty’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000RcjSSEAZ

DPAA is making a correction for 1st Lt. McGuire’s internment date.  Don’t forget to update your calendar.        

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 August, 2023 16:29
To: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Subject: RE: DPAA News Release - Illinois Pilot Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings –

We are sending out a corrected date for 1st Lt. McGuire’s internment, which will be on October 28, 2023.  We apologize for the incorrect date originally sent out.

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2023 12:56 PM
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Pilot Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Edward T. McGuire was accounted for in June, 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 Air Forces 1st Lt. Edward T. McGuire, 22, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II was accounted for June 30, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, McGuire 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 McGuire was serving as a 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 McGuire’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) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.

McGuire’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.

McGuire will be buried on October 28, 2023, in Alsip, Illinois.

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.

McGuire’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pUAEAY

 
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From: POW Network <info@pownetwork.org>
Sent: 15 August, 2023 19:56
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Fwd: FW: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

 


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FW: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

Date:

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Welcome HOME PVT. Thurman!

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 August, 2023 11:18
Subject: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Pvt. Alvin Thurman was accounted for in March, 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 Pvt. Alvin D. Thurman, 21, Broken Bow, Oklahoma, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for March 30, 2023.

In late 1951, Thurman was a member of 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Thurman was reported killed in action Nov. 6 after his unit’s withdrawal from Hill 200 in the present-day Korea Demilitarized Zone. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death in Nov. 28, 1951 and declared Thurman non-recoverable in Jan. 16, 1956

Following the war, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) tasked with recovering, identifying, and repatriating deceased U.S. service members. In December 1951 the AGRS recovered a set of remains designated X-5106 Tanggok south of Hill 200. On June 27, 1955, the remains were declared unidentifiable and subsequently transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP,) known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu and interred as an Unknown.

On Nov. 5, 2018, following thorough historical and scientific analysis, X-5106 Tanggok was disinterred from the Punchbowl and sent to the laboratory for analysis.

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

 

Thurman’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific also known as the Punchbowl Cemetery, 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.

 

Thurman will be buried in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, on Oct. 21, 2023.

 

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.

 

Thurman’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004lW5EAI.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 August, 2023 12:17
Subject: DPAA News Release - Arizona Soldier Accounted for from World War II

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Pfc. Lex Lillard was accounted for in May, 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 Pfc. Lex L. Lillard, 20, of Tucson, Arizona, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for May 22, 2023.

 

In late 1941, Lillard was a member of the Medical Department of Manila and Subic Bays in the Philippines, 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.  Lillard 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, Lillard died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.

 

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. Twelve of the sets of remains from Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.

 

In January 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

           

To identify Lillard’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.

 

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

 

Lillard will be buried in Jay, Oklahoma, on September 23, 2023.

 

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.

 

Lillard’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XlYNEA0.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 August, 2023 13:30
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

Greetings,

U.S. Army Sgt. Richard Sharrow was accounted for in January, 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 Army Sgt. Richard M. Sharrow, 22, of Marienville, Pennsylvania, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023.

In July 1950, Sharrow was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on July 25 after his unit sustained heavy casualties while defending against the North Korean Army’s advance near Yongdong, South Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953, and his remains were determined non-recoverable in Jan. 16, 1956.

The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps (AGRSG) was responsible for recovering, identifying, and repatriating those lost during the Korean War. In the spring of 1951, they recovered a set of remains designated as Unknown X-1023 near Yongdong. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-1023 the remains were declared unidentifiable. In April 1955, the remains 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 National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. On Oct. 21, 2019, the DPAA disinterred X-1023, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.

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

Sharrow’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.

Sharrow will be buried in Marienville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 25, 2023

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.

Sharrow’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000cdVpEAI

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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 9 August, 2023 10:49
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Soldier Accounted for from Korean War

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Cpl. Francis Jury was accounted for last week and his family received their full briefing on his identification. Please see the official release below, and attached.

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Francis James Jury, 23, of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 10, 2022.

                   

In late 1950, Cpl. Jury was a member of Heavy Mortar Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, during battle with enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war.

 

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

 

Cpl. Jury’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, 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. Jury will be buried at Annville, Pennsylvania, 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 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, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.

 

Cpl. Jury’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000b8cs5EAA.

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 9 August, 2023 12:26
Subject: DPAA News Release - Massachusetts Airman Accounted for from WWII

 

Greetings,

U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Alfred Pezzella was accounted for last week and his family received their full briefing on his identification. Please see the official release below, and attached.

 

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Alfred W. Pezzella, 27, of Newton, Massachusetts, killed during World War II, was accounted for April 6, 2023.

In the summer of 1943, Pezzella was assigned to 328th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93d Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Pezzella was serving as the bombardier 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 for examination and identification.

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

Pezzella’s name is recorded on the on the Tablets of the Missing at 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.

Pezzella will be buried in Bourne, Massachusetts, 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.

Pezzella’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe8ZEAS.

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The Defense Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) Agency (DPAA) has announced that a Pennsylvania soldier who died during the Korean ...

 
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According to a release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Army Cpl. Francis James Jury have been returned to the United ...

 
The remains of Cpl. Francis Jury of Clearfield, Pa., who was killed during the Korean War, have been identified, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The remains of a World War II Chicago airman were found and identified earlier this year in India, ...

 
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The American Legion Post 14 raise the U.S. and POW/MIA flags at Ypsilanti on Saturday, Aug. 5, to dedicate the city's new flag display.
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Tortured on the front line: Horrific video 'shows Ukrainian soldier beaten with an axe and an assault rifle's barrel buried in his ear as he is interrogated by Russian captors'

Horrific new footage from the frontlines of Ukraine appears to show the moment Russian soldiers forced a testimony from a Ukrainian PoW after threatening him with an axe and pushing the barrel of an assault rifle into his ear. At least three Russian soldiers or mercenaries are seen demanding that the captive reveal positions of his Kyiv troop comrades at the frontline. Russian pro-war channels published the sickening video which, if confirmed as authentic, would constitute evidence of war crimes, flouting the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. One claimed: 'This is how [Ukrainian] POWs are broken.' The appalling incident is believed to have happened on Sunday, possibly near the village of Novoselivka, Luhansk region, north of Svatovo...


 
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The remains of Army Corporal Rex Powell of Valdese NC were identified after being disinterred from the cemetery and analyzed at a Defense POW/MIA ...

 
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Even though he was presumed dead, he is officially listed with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as missing in action on Guam in July 1944.

 
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen Forest, a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) determined that one ...
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Wagner Handoff, DNA Tests: Remains of Special Forces Vet May Finally Be Coming Home from Ukraine
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Kyle - a former Navy SEAL who came to global attention as the author of the bestselling autobiography American Sniper - along with his friend ...

 
James Lindsay, whose nearly four decades of distinguished service in the ... In the citation for the Distinguished Service Cross, he was heralded ...
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In 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) was able to identify Zehetner through DNA sent in by his sister, who was still alive.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B. Miklosh, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, ...
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Becker & Sons Funeral Home in Mount Olive will hold services at the grave before the burial. His remains were found by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
From NAMPOWs

Purple Heart Day

Each year on August 7, our nation recognizes the men and women who are known as Purple Heart recipients. The Purple Heart, one of the oldest military decorations, is presented to service members who were injured or killed in service to our country.
The award has a history that reaches back to the waning days of the American Revolution. The Continental Congress had forbidden General George Washington from granting commissions and promotions in rank to recognize merit. Yet Washington wanted to honor merit, particularly among the enlisted soldiers. On August 7, 1782, his general orders established the Badge of Military Merit.
Desert Inn Comm Wire Story
CC: from Jim (xray) Ray.....
Here's the rest of the story on early communication in the Desert Inn area of the Hanoi Hilton...fascinating.
NAM POW Reunion Video
CC: from the Nixon Library - a compilation video of our 50th Reunion......
Memorial Day Concert Video
CC: from Lee Ellis......
Here is a link to the video to the Smitty and Louise story told by John Slattery and Mary McCormack at the Memorial Day Concert.

 
We like it a lot for many reasons—one of which is that it’s amazingly similar to their story in our POW Romance book. Also, a link to the entire concert. We enjoyed it so much.

 

From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 4 August, 2023 10:11
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Airman Accounted for from WWII

Greetings,

2nd Lt. Miklosh was accounted for in May, 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 Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B. Miklosh, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.

In the summer of 1944, Miklosh was assigned to the 678th Bombardment Squadron, 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), 58th Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Bomber Command. On June 26, Miklosh while serving as a navigator on a B-29 Superfortress crashed into a rice paddy in the village of Sapekhati, India after a bombing raid on Imperial iron and steel works at Yawata, Kyushu Island, Japan. All 11 crew members were killed instantly in the crash.

On June 28, 1944 a team from 342nd Service Squadron, 329th Service Group visited the crash site recovering and identifying only seven sets of remains which were interred at in United States Military Cemetery in Panitola, Assam, India and subsequently disinterred and sent to their final internment on Jan. 13, 1948.

In September 1948 the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), investigation team searched the area of the crash site, but they did not discover any remains associated with Miklosh. He was declared non-recoverable Jan. 2, 1948.

In October 2014 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (a DPAA predecessor organization) conducted a Joint Field Activity in Sapekhati, which led to the location of the crash site and the recovery of life support equipment and wreckage associated with the B29 aircraft. In 2018 and 2019, Southeastern Archaeological Research (SEARCH) a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered possible osseous remains and material evidence.

To identify Miklosh’s remains, scientists from DPAA used material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome (Y-STR), analysis.

Miklosh will be buried in Sierra Vista, Arizona, 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.

Miklosh’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmBZEA0

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Then, in 2015, the defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency personnel exhumed the remains of the unidentified sailors for further analysis.
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 1 August, 2023 13:31
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kansas Airman Recovered from WWII

Greetings,