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Recovery Mission in Laos Continues
U.S. Army Capt. Jordan Smith, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team lead, and U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Ryan Edwards, DPAA life support investigator augment, personnel excavate soil from a unit during a recovery mission in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Jan. 21, 2023. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. David Owsianka)
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia tours DPAA lab
W. Patrick Murphy, the U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, speaks with Mr. Kelly McKeague, Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, during a visit to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 16, 2023. There are currently 46 Americans believed to be missing in Cambodia from the Vietnam War. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Zachary T. Beatty)
Enoura Maru Disinterment Project
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 9, 2023. The ceremony was part of DPAA’s efforts to disinter the remains of service members lost on the Enoura Maru, a Japanese cargo ship used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II as a troop and prisoner of war transport ship. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. John Miller)
Mission Prep
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) palletize their equipment prior to missions across Southeast Asia at the DPAA log yard on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 10, 2023. A DPAA recovery team often has to be packed and prepared to work and live in austere environments all across the globe. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. John Miller)
Repatriation Ceremony for Solomon Islands Mission
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) perform a repatriation ceremony in honor of the recovered remains of military personnel at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 17, 2022. The remains of these unknown personnel recovered from various regions in Solomon Islands will undergo an examination for possible identification at DPAA. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Edward Randolph/DPAA)
IUSSD helps establish strategic partnership with Indonesia
Fern Sumpter Winbush, Principal Deputy Director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), right, speaks about the DPAA mission and the DoD's commitment to establishing a strategic partnership with Indonesia during the 20th Indonesia - United States Security Dialogue (IUSSD) in Bandung, Indonesia, Dec. 1. Lindsey Ford, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia for the U.S. Department of Defense and Maj. Gen. Bambang Trisnohadi, Director General of Defence Strategy for the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Indonesia, left, led the delegations for the IUSSD, which is an annual meeting to review bilateral cooperation and exchange views on regional and global security issues. (DoD Photo by James Crow)
Recovery Mission in Laos Continues
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia tours DPAA lab
Enoura Maru Disinterment Project
Mission Prep
Repatriation Ceremony for Solomon Islands Mission
IUSSD helps establish strategic partnership with Indonesia
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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Christie, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Alton Christie, 18, of Jasper, Florida killed during the Korean War, was
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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Whatley, I.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Ithiel E. Whatley, 19, of Pensacola, Florida, who died as a prisoner of war
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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Garrigus, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Garrigus, 24, of Terra Haute, Indiana, killed during the Korean War,
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Pilot Accounted For From World War II (Schrader, F.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Cmdr. Frederick R. Schrader, 31, of Lawrenceville, Illinois, killed during World War
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Soldier Accounted For From World War II (Bennett, F.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Franklin H. Bennett, 20, of Glendive, Montana, who was captured and died as a
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“The goal is for us to go out of business.”
On the third floor of a beautiful, renovated building in Oahu, Hawaii, is a lab full of tables,
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WAVY- Missing, but never forgotten: A Virginia Beach son comes home
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Nearly 80 years after his death, WWII soldier’s remains identified, sent home to Kansas
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Students, Faculty To Conduct Second Forensic Archaeology Field School In Germany At Site Of World War II Airplane Crash (via Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
For the second year, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Anthropology has been
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U.S. Air Force lieutenant killed on D-Day laid to rest in Normandy "with full military honors" nearly 80 years later (via CBS News)
A 23-year-old who was killed during the World War II invasion of Normandy has been laid to rest
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