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DPAA's next Family Member Update will be held in San Antonio, Texas, March. 23, 2019. To register, click the link below.
http://www.dpaa.mil/Families/Family-Events/
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Lloyd Villanueva
U.S. service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disinterment ceremony held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar. 4, 2019. The ceremony was part of DPAA’s efforts to disinter the remains of unknown service members lost during the Korean War.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew J. Bruch
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Amber Alumpe, a life support investigator assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, cleans materials found during a recovery excavation to examine them as possible aircrew life support material, March 4, 2019.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew J. Bruch
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency drape the U.S. flag over a transfer case containing possible remains of a U.S. service member lost during WWII, at a repatriation ceremony at the airport in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 12, 2019.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kelly L. Timney
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Morse, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team sergeant, screens dirt from an excavated unit with the help of Lao workers in Houaphan Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Feb. 9, 2019.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Leidholm
DPAA Makes 200th Identification from USS Oklahoma Unknown Remains - A series of large posters hang in the conference room of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory located at Offutt Air Base, Nebraska. The heading on each of the posters states “USS OKLAHOMA.” Underneath the headings are neat rows of printed rectangular frames. Each one represents a person who was unaccounted for when the USS Oklahoma was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Some of the frames show a U.S. Navy logo or U.S. Marine Corps insignia. Some of the rectangles show a photo of a serviceman, usually in military uniform. Nearly 400 frames cover the posters.
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The DPAA Year in Review is an annual publication of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. It chronicles Worldwide mission of our world-class workforce working to fulfill our nation's obligation by providing the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. View the DPAA Year in Review now!
2018 DPAA Year in Review
DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando
Kelly McKeague, right, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Director, explains the symbolism of the POW/MIA flag to Iryna Friz, Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine. McKeague provided Friz and Valeriy Chalyi, the Ukraine Ambassador to the United States, a tour of the POW/MIA corridor and a briefing about DPAA's work as part of the Ukraine group's visit to the Pentagon, March 1, 2019.
U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson
Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conduct an honorable carry for the possible remains of unidentified U.S. service members lost during the Vietnam War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 28, 2019. The remains were recently recovered from sites in Laos as part of DPAA’s efforts to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel to their families and the nation.
U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Apryl Hall
Elizabeth Jones-Ohree and Ida Jones-Dickens are interviewed about their brother, U.S. Army Pfc. William "Hoover" Jones, who went missing in action in 1950 during the Korean War. For 68 years the Jones family had unanswered questions about their brother's death and on Aug. 1, 2018 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) received 55 boxes of believed-to-be U.S. service members' remains from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Pfc. Jones was identified as one of those individuals, giving his sisters the closure they had been seeking for decades.
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DPAA is pleased to launch the "FamWeb"- an online space for sharing updates, content and new information with families of personnel who are unaccounted-for and recently identified from past conflicts.
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USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Thomson, R.)
Navy Seaman 2nd Class Richard J. Thomson, killed during the attack on the USS Oklahoma in World War II, was accounted for on March 14, 2019.On Dec. 7, 1941,
Story
Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Rix, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Army Cpl. James C. Rix, 18, of Alamo, Georgia, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for on
Story
USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Klasing, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class William A. Klasing, 19, of Trenton, Illinois, killed during
Story
Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Nemec, S.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Army Cpl. Stephen P. Nemec, 21, of Cleveland, Ohio, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for
Story
Pilot Accounted For From World War II (Lurcott, H.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Howard T. Lurcott, 26, of Philadelphia, killed during World War
Story
Airman Accounted For From World War II (Shaffer, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Carl M. Shaffer, 22, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, killed during
Story
USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Maule, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 1st Class Joseph K. Maule, 18, of Bloomfield, Nebraska, killed during World War
Story
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DPAA IN THE NEWS
Pentagon Officials to Meet With Hundreds of S.A.-area POW/MIA Families (Via WOAI News Radio)
Hundreds of San Antonio-area relatives of military personnel listed as prisoners of war or missing
Story
75 years after his death, a lost Philadelphia airman is returned to his family (Via The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Janice Hechler can’t remember the first time she learned that her Uncle Howard was lost.She was not
Story
Remains of World War II Pottstown airman identified (Via The Mercury)
Seventy-four years after his bomber crashed in a Pacific lagoon, the remains of a Pottstown airman
Story
Identified Middletown sailor killed in Pearl Harbor ‘coming home’ (Via Dayton Daily News)
The niece of a Middletown sailor killed on Pearl Harbor Day said she’s thankful he’s finally “coming
Story
Sailor Killed During Pearl Harbor Attack Identified 77 Years Later (Via Time Magazine)
The body of an Ohio sailor killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II has
Story
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