AMERICANS IDENTIFIED SINCE 1989
WWII, KOREA, COLD WAR

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2025  https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaRecentlyAccountedFor

2025
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Stories and Press Releases below chart

Research sites: 

www.kpows.com

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
721 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 450 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
AUSTRIA
02/06/2025
Maj
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 31 INFANTRY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
02/04/2025
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
I Company 3rd Battalion 21st Infantry Regiment 24 Infantry Division
KOREA, SOUTH
01/31/2025
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
I Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
01/29/2025
ACMM
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES NAVY
NAVY - UNITED STATES NAVY
PHILIPPINES
01/27/2025
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
ARMY - 59 COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
PHILIPPINES
01/24/2025
Sgt
KOREAN WAR
UNITED STATES ARMY
A Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
KOREA, NORTH
01/15/2025
2d Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
28 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 19 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (VERY HEAVY)
JAPAN
01/14/2025
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
141 INFANTRY 36 DIVISION
FRANCE
01/14/2025
Capt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
362 FIGHTER SQUADRON 357 FIGHTER GROUP
GERMANY
01/10/2025
Lt Col
VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
555 TFS 12 TFW
VIETNAM
12/20/2024
Pvt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
AIR CORPS
UNITED STATES
12/20/2024
Tech. Sgt.
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY
121 INFANTRY 8 DIVISION
GERMANY
12/20/2024
Staff Sgt.
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
22 MATERIALS SQUADRON 17 AIR BASE GROUP
UNITED STATES
12/19/2024
1st Lt
WORLD WAR II
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
858 BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON 492 BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)
FRANCE
12/19/2024

 

List posted 02/21/2024

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

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

 
 
Detained American Released to US Embassy in Moscow

By    |   Sunday, 16 February 2025 03:40 PM EST

Kalob Byers, an American who was detained in Russia on suspicion of drug smuggling, has been released to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, an independent journalist reported Sunday, citing Byers’ mother.....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14402473/Condom-tycoon-fell-asleep-48ft-yacht-enemy-waters-horrific-nightmare-began-Trump-saved-life.html
 

Condom tycoon fell asleep on his 48ft yacht in enemy waters and his horrific nightmare


 


 


 


 


 


 

American retiree Eric Arthur, 62, went from living a carefree life on his 48ft yacht to a horrific nightmare he admits he still sometimes wonders if it was all a dream.


https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-detained-russia-identified-kalob-wayne-byers
American detained in Russia identified as Kalob Wayne Byers

Greg Norman Fox News

Kalob Wayne Byers was identified as the American citizen taken into custody in Russia on a drug smuggling charge, according to media reports.

The 28-year-old was detained at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on Feb. 7 after a K-9 with the Russian Federal Customs Service detected something in his luggage, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. ....
 

NOTE: 52 years ago,  POW releases started Feb 12 1973, with those who were injured, ill, or had family issues at home. Numerous flights occurred thru early April.  Robert White was the "last" POW, alone on his flight home.    332 Vietnam returnees (out of 663) remain alive today.  
 

https://www.military.com/off-duty/books/2025/02/12/unlikely-war-hero-youngest-and-lowest-ranking-vietnam-war-pow-hanoi-hilton.html?ESRC=eb_250213.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20250213

'The Unlikely War Hero': The Youngest and Lowest-Ranking Vietnam War POW in the Hanoi Hilton

.....The tale that emerges from the documents, oral histories and video testimonies is one of bureaucratic intransigence and inattention—and one American family’s half-century quest for accountability and truth. The story also drives home the magnitude of the gnawing pain of the families of the nearly 1,600 Americans still listed as “unaccounted for” from the Vietnam War....


 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Master Sgt. Luther Grace, 34, of Lumber City, Georgia, killed during the ...

 
Back in September, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that officials had finally positively identified the remains of Hardy ...

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/11/fifty-two-years-after-us-spy-plane-was-shot-down-over-laos-family-still-fights-answers-did-crew-all.html?ESRC=eb_250212.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20250212
 

52 Years After a US Spy Plane Was Shot Down over Laos, a Family Still Fights for Answers: Did the Crew All Perish or Were Half of Them Left Behind?

February 11, 2025
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that 26-year-old US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan of Wappingers Falls, ...

 
A Life Fulfilling Climb. By Staff Sgt. Blake Gonzales Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Public Affairs. PHOU PHA THI, Laos –.

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February 10, 2025
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency walk beside a casket during a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

 
It took almost another 70 years for a collaboration between the U.S.'s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and German researchers to recover ...
February 9, 2025
LUBBOCK, Texas— Texas native and Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Colonel George Andrew Davis Jr, declared Missing in Action 73 years ago, ...
February 7, 2025
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that U.S. Army Sgt. David Eugene Hardy, 20, of Cascade, Virginia, who died while a ...
February 2, 2025
Fifteen minutes later, the flight crew reported that the plane was taking on heavy anti-aircraft fire. It was the last time anyone heard from Baron 52 ...
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/01/breaking-trump-envoy-richard-grenell-secures-release-of-americans-held-in-venezuela-amid-tense-relations/

 
 

 
Robert L. Bryant of Bloomington, who died in September 1943 during Operation Avalanche in Italy. PROVIDED BY DEFENSE POW/MIA ACCOUNTING AGENCY.
January 29, 2025
The Army is spending nearly $400000 to relocate 80-year-old barracks across Fort McCoy, Wisconsin instead of spending tens of millions on a new ...

 
Robert L. Bryant, 23, was assigned to Company B, in the 4th Ranger Battalion, as part of a group known as Darby's Rangers, the Defense POW/MIA ...

 
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency render honors during an honorable carry ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan.
Bill requested no flowers ; instead, donations may be given to The National League of P.O.W./M.I.A. Families (pow-miafamilies.org). More information ...

 

 
 

 
US military working to ID thousands of missing WWII soldiers. The search for Shostak is remarkable. But it's not unusual. The Defense POW/MIA ...
January 28, 2025

 
 

 
January 28, 2025
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has recently selected six student interns to participate in laboratory training through the Naval Research ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Charles W. Smalley, 19, killed during World War II, was accounted ...

 
On Dec. 29, 1944, he was a waist gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber as part of a crew of nine. His plane was part of a major aerial attack on ...

 
Mallory Rachel Haas is an archaeologist who started her career working in public archaeology and is now a Director of The SHIPS Project, ...

Published Jan. 27, 2025, 7:23 a.m. ET

https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/us-news/nyc-teen-solves-80-year-old-family-mystery-during-recent-visit-to-auschwitz/
NNYC teen solves 80-year-old family mystery during recent visit to Auschwitz: ‘Closure we never imagined possible

‘Miracle’ Auschwitz babies reveal how they escaped the Holocaust after being written off as having almost no chance of survival

 
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He earned the Silver Star, Purple Heart and a POW medal. However, he wasn't done fighting for his fellow Americans. Stratton later became a social ...
 
January 21, 2025
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. DeLoren D. Dage, 23, killed during the Korean War, was accounted ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Capt. Arthur M. Lingo, 24, killed during World War II, ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph R. Travers, 24, of Taunton, were accounted for on June 20 ...

 
On Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing of Columbus, Wisconsin, who was killed at age 33, was ...

 
... POW/MIA Accounting Agency said.Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. A service member from Taunton who was taken prisoner during the Korean War has ...

 
COLUMBUS, Wis. -- A Columbus man who died while fighting in the Vietnam War was accounted for last month, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...

 
... POW/MIA Recognition Day · USS Cole Sinking · Veterans Day · VJ Day · Women's History Month. Daily Military Trivia. 1) Arthur Wellesley -- who would ...
https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/world-news/2-americans-held-in-afghanistan-freed-in-taliban-prisoner-exchange/
 
2 Americans held in Afghanistan freed in Taliban prisoner exchange hours into Trump’s presidency

2 Americans held in Afghanistan freed in Taliban prisoner exchange hours into Trump’s presidency


 

Two Americans being held in Afghanistan have been freed by the Taliban in exchange for a “violent jihadist and narcotics trafficker” serving life in California — just hours after President Trump was back in the White House, officials said Tuesday.

Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were en route back to the United States early Tuesday in exchange for Khan Mohammed — who was the first person to be convicted on US narco-terrorism laws.

Mohammed — who the US Justice Department previously said had “sought to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan using rockets” — had already landed back in Kabul, the Taliban said early Tuesday....

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that U.S. Army Air Force Sgt. Homer C. Nyberg, 23, of Clay Center, Kansas, ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14256249/washington-state-family-learns-Ukrainian-son-alive-soldier-captured-Russia.html
 

 
 
A family were told their son was dead. Two years later they spotted his photo in a news


 


 


 


 


 


 


Valeriia and Roman Biletskiy, who live in Washington state with their other seven children, said saw their son Roman Jr in a photo of men who had just been released from a Russian prison. They thought their son had been dead for years.

01/06/2025

He holds numerous military decorations, including the Silver Star, two Legions of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Bronze Stars, and two ...
January 6, 2025
The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...

 
Every U.S. Warfighter who answers the nation's call carries a solemn promise: they will never be forgotten. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
January 4, 2025
 
(WHNT) - While the Korean War was over 70 years ago, there are still more than 7,000 missing and unidentified soldiers according to the Defense POW/ ...

 
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that a first-class United States Army private, who was captured and killed as a ...

 
PFC Johnson, a Millbrook native and Arlington High School Grad, was killed in action June 12, 1953 on the frontlines in South Korea; ...

 
Pittis was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Mar. 20, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in September 2022 from the U.S. ...

 

 
Subject: NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HIGHWAY ACT SIGNED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN DEC. 17, 2024
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:02:24 -0500 (EST)
From: DICK TOBIASON
 

Hello Mary.

A good summary can be read here:
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/honor/2024/december/president-congress-grant-medal-of-honor-highway-national-designation

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Ryan is a former Navy SEAL, former CIA contractor, special operations outreach and CNBC contributor. At 2:57 p.m. ET Friday, Ryan posted a warning ...
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Forwarded Message -------- From former Vietnam Prisoner of War
 
Subject: Watch "MSNBC host SLAMMED for Comments on US Military Veterans and Terrorism" on YouTube
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:08:00 -0800
From: Mark Smith <theziphmself@gmail.com>
To: Mark Smith <theziphmself@gmail.com>

 

You think this despicable propaganda does not work?
 
Honorable combat veterans have been turned into mental nutcases by media propaganda, academia and yes even the Veterans Administration;
 
PTSD HAS BECOME AN EASIER ROUTE TO 100% DISABILITY THAN BEING SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES, BLOWN UP OR YOUR BLADDER AND KIDNEYS DESTROYED BY DRINKING WATER IN THE FIELD YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT CHEMICALLY TAINTED.
 
WHY HAVE ' SEXUAL HARRASSMENT ' NUMBERS GONE THROUGH THE ROOF IN OUR MILITARY?
 
BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY ROUTE TO 100% DISABILITY AT THE VA FOR NON-COMBAT GAYS, BOYS, GIRLS AND THOSE THAT SIMPLY CANNOT MAKE UP THEIR MINDS WHAT THEY ARE,YOU FOOLS!!
 
COMBAT SOLDIERS MAY LOSE SLEEP AT NIGHT BUT THEY ARE THE LEAST LIKELY TO HOSE DOWN CIVILIANS WITH AN AR-15 SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THE RESULT WILL BE!!
 
YOU WANT TO FIND GUILT RIDDEN VETERANS?
 
LOOK FIRST AT THOSE FORMER BOY/GIRL TYPISTS AND COMPUTER GEEKS WHO KNOW THEY SHOULDN'T BE SITTING FOR A VA APPOINTMENT NEXT TO AN INFANTRYMAN WITH NO ARMS AND LEGS OR A C-5A PILOT WITH A BROKEN BACK.
 
LASTLY, RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT TREATMENT AT HOME AFTER RETURN FROM WAR AND BEING A ' SUSPECT ' IN EVERY CRIME COMMITTED HAS MORE TO DO WITH PTSD THAN ANY BATTLEFIELD EVENT.
 
AND DON'T EVEN BRING UP ALL THOSE FAKE POWS AND FAKE COMBAT INFANTRY VETERANS YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW TO SUCK AT THE TROUGH OF CONGRESSIONAL LARGESSE.
 
AND NO, SAYING " THANK YOU FOF YOUR SERVICE ' IN AN AIRPORT DOES NOT ABSOLVE YOU OF YOUR OBLIGATIONS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN TO THOSE WHOM HAVE ACTUALLY BORNE THE BATTLE.
 
ZIPPO 
 
https://youtube.com/shorts/gYdl3jPWC04?si=7UWy0DSp__jgZDfD 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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