Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), and attendees from the Obama Hawaiian African American Museum and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, participate in a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 7, 2024. Eight individuals were disinterred as part of DPAA’s ongoing West Loch project, which seeks to identify service members who died in the 1944 West Loch Disaster during World War II. The disaster occurred when a series of explosions aboard ships killed or wounded 132 service members and damaged or sank several vessels as they prepared for the invasion of Saipan. The remains were transferred to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for further scientific analysis and possible identification. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Austin Boucher)