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May 31, 2022
US will bring home and identify remains of unknown soldiers from only American cemetery in Africa (via CNN)
The US is set to bring home and identify the remains of unknown World War II soldiers from the only American cemetery in Africa, the US Embassy in Tunisia said on Monday, Memorial Day.The announcement comes after the US and Tunisia signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow the US to exhume the remains of unknown soldiers from the North
Naming the Unknown Soldier: How agency helped identify local men killed in action (via The Dayton Daily News)
On May 21, nearly 72 years after his death in battle, U.S. Army Pfc. Chauncey William Sharp, a native of the village of Osborn, finally came home.Sharp was buried three times in seven decades — the first time in South Korea, the second time in Hawaii. The third burial was May 21, when he was laid to rest at Dayton National Cemetery — this time
On Memorial Day, Nursing Professor Remembers the Missing (via University of Virginia)
Terri Yost, an assistant professor of nursing and a retired Army officer with 20 years of service, once joined an effort to find and return the remains of missing service members lost on foreign battlefields.The work is often tedious – sifting dirt for bone fragments – and takes place in some of the world’s most remote and inhospitable places. But,
May 18, 2022
Thai archival find may resolve fate of missing WWII US flyer (via AP)
U-TAPAO, Thailand — The remains of an American airman who went missing in action in World War II may finally be on their way home, thanks to a chance discovery of records in flood-threatened archives in Thailand. U.S. and local authorities held a solemn ceremony Wednesday at an air base in eastern Thailand to honor and repatriate remains recently recovered from a rice
April 20, 2022
Home again: Korean War vet's remains delivered to Hagerstown (via The Frederick News-Post)
For more than 70 years, Sgt. Roy “Buddy” Charles DeLauter’s family wondered what became of him after his unit was sent to fight in the Korean War.Then in 2018, North Korea returned to the United States 55 boxes reported to contain remains of U.S. service members.On Tuesday, Buddy came home.Guided by a motorcade of flashing lights, DeLauter’s casket
April 18, 2022
Unknown war dead identified 80 years after their deaths (via Nebraska Public Media)
The USS Oklahoma was docked at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The massive battleship capsized quickly after Japanese torpedoes hit. 429 sailors and Marines on board died that day. The mostly unidentified and unidentifiable remains that were recovered from the wreckage were moved to mass graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Until
Feb. 8, 2022
Identifying Sunken Planes: UD and Project Recover work with the Danish Royal Navy to identify two U.S. bombers from WWII (via University of Delaware)
On June 20, 1944, a collision occurred between two B-24 bombers that were part of the U.S. 565th Bomb Squadron and were headed to strike targets in Germany. Between the two planes, a total of 21 Airmen were involved in the accident, which occurred near the island of Langeland in Denmark.In early August 2021, a joint effort between the University of
Dec. 6, 2021
How scientist/detectives work to identify missing service members (via Nebraska Public Media)
How scientist/detectives work to identify missing service members inside the DPAA lab at Offutt Air Force Base near Bellevue. A story from the Nebraska Public Media series on innovation and creativity in Nebraska, "What If..." More at netNebraska.org/WhatIf
80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor brings end to victim-identification program (via the Washington Post)
Twin brothers Leo and Rudolph Blitz were 16 when they applied to join the Navy. They were so young that their father had to go to the recruiting office in Omaha and give his permission. Rudolph wanted a Navy career. Leo wanted to learn a trade.It was 1938. Times were hard and the boys lived with their family in a two-bedroom house in a neighborhood
A Noble Calling (via UMass Boston Magazine)
Colonel (Retired) Fern Sumpter Winbush ’89 enjoyed a distinguished 30-year career in the U.S. Army, during which she rose from private first class to commander before retiring in 2015.Today, she serves in a different capacity. As a member of the Senior Executive Service and principal director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), she