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DPAA In The News

News 2 | Dec. 26, 2024

HRC’s Past Conflicts Repatriation Branch strives to connect Families with fallen

By By Maria McClure, Army HRC Public Affairs

Marge Hop Wong was in the third grade when her brother Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop, who became a waist gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress, left to fight in World War II. Hop went missing Dec. 29, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. He was just 20 years old.

Wong never stopped yearning to find out what happened to her brother and the U.S. Army never stopped searching for him.

“My aunt has always been interested in all of her siblings. She was the youngest of eight,” Ellen Yee said. “She had three brothers that were in the service and two of them returned.”

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