Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Liberation of Manila 80th anniversary ceremony

Service members and civilians with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency alongside American Battle Monuments Commission staff disinter a casket containing unknown remains at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippines, March 3, 2025. The MACM holds personnel from the U.S., Philippines, and other allied nations and includes 29 Medal of Honor recipients. They operate and maintain 26 American cemeteries and 31 memorials, monuments and markers in 17 countries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cole Yardley)

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Sixteen service members in rows of four stand in formation aboard an aircraft with caskets covered in American flags between them.

Department Tells Gold Star Families: We'll Find Loved Ones, Bring Them Home

Some 380 Gold Star families attended a family member update to learn how the agency is proceeding in efforts to repatriate the remains of service members who never returned home from the Vietnam War, the Korean War or World War II.

DPAA Unveils 2025 Poster Honoring Missing Service Members

Fern Sumpter Winbush, principal deputy director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, left, unveils the 2025 POW/MIA Recognition Day poster with Jeanie Huffman, a Gold Star daughter and poster designer, during a family member update in Sacramento, California, Feb. 22, 2025. The event was the largest family member update in the history of DPAA, with 380 family members attending, 276 of which were first timers. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Austin Boucher)

Anatomy Studies

Dr. Emily Tarbet Hust, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist, briefs students from the Aliamanu Middle School on anatomy and different techniques used to identify personnel during their visit to the DPAA facilities on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 13, 2025. The agency participated in its third annual Student Summit Career Day to engage with the local community and educate students on identification and recovery operations. Underwater and terrestrial archaeologists, forensic anthropologists and isotope preparation scientists led students through simulated hands-on techniques and briefs to share more about the agency’s mission. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lesley Cisneros)

The Battle of Reipertswiller

Pfc. Creed Johns of Nicholasville, Kentucky, right, and Pvt. Joseph Koreal, Cleveland, Ohio, left, members of a pioneer squad of the HQ company 1st Battalion, 157th Regiment, 45th Division, tasked to carry rations to soldiers in foxholes, climb up a difficult hill with packs of supplies. In the photo, Pvt. Koreal is carrying a can of bacon grease. Schonau Area, Germany. (U.S. Army photo by Fenberg, 163rd Signal Photo Company) Credit NARA.

Liberation of Manila 80th anniversary ceremony

The 2025 National POW/MIA Recognition Day Poster Is Now Available!

Department Tells Gold Star Families: We'll Find Loved Ones, Bring Them Home

DPAA Unveils 2025 Poster Honoring Missing Service Members

Anatomy Studies

The Battle of Reipertswiller

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DPAA Disinterment Team Attends Liberation of Manila 80th Anniversary Ceremony A solemn ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Manila was held Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. Story

Airman Accounted For From World War II (Chitwood, R.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Russell O. Chitwood, 27, killed during World War II, was accounted Story

USS West Virginia Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Luker, R.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that Navy Fireman 3rd Class (F3c) Royle B. Luker, 17, killed during World War II, was accounted for on May Story

Soldier Accounted For From WWII (Thornton, I.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 10, 2025.In Story

EOD Techs Ensure Safe Recovery Mission Operations An estimated two million tons of bombs were dropped in Laos during the Vietnam War marking a unique challenge the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has when sending teams to search and recover remains of unaccounted-for personnel. Story

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Department Tells Gold Star Families: We'll Find Loved Ones, Bring Them Home Some 380 Gold Star families attended a family member update to learn how the agency is proceeding in efforts to repatriate the remains of service members who never returned home from the Vietnam War, the Korean War or World War II. Story

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