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DPAA In The News

News 2 | Sept. 19, 2024

Hoffman Estates native uses archaeology training in search for Americans missing in combat worldwide

By Eric Peterson, Chicago Daily Herald

Friday is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, but bringing missing Americans home is a year-round focus for Hoffman Estates native and professional archaeologist David Brown.

He now employs the same techniques to find and identify U.S. military personnel from World War II and later for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency within the Department of Defense as he previously did to unearth the culture of ancient civilizations.

“The skill set is really exactly the same,” said Brown from his current home in Hawaii. “We use the same scientific approaches and practices to read the terrain.”

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