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Medal of Honor recipient, retired Army Lt. Col. James “Mike” Sprayberry speaks with employees of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 9. Sprayberry served two tours in Vietnam and was awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of his heroic actions in April 1968 during Operation Delaware in the A Shau Valley, where he neutralized enemy forces and saved numerous Soldiers.

Jan. 8, 2016

Medal of Honor Recipient Recalls Times in Vietnam

ARLINGTON, Virginia- Medal of Honor recipient, retired Army Lt. Col. James “Mike” Sprayberry, spoke with employees of the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) in

Dale Costill speaks to nearly 200 family members about his brother, who was lost during World War II in Pearl Harbor. Costill, looking for answers, attended a government briefing hosted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, in Portland, Maine, Nov. 14

Dec. 14, 2015

New England Family Members Remain Hopeful

PORTLAND, Maine—It has been more than seven decades since World War II veteran Gene Costill saw his brother. Costill’s brother, Harold, was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. Harold’s

Members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), screen through dirt in Arunachal Pradesh, India during the search and recovery efforts to retrieve eight US Army Air Corps members that went down with the aircraft in 1942. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts in order to support the Department of Defense's personnel accounting efforts. (DoD photo by SSgt Erik Cardenas/U.S. Air Force)

Nov. 18, 2015

DPAA Conducts Recovery Operations in India

Thirteen members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, along with a team from Rimo Expeditions, conducted search and recovery efforts on the Himalayan Mountains in the Arunachal Pradesh region,

DPAA Director Michael Linnington meets with Vietnam Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ha Kim Ngoc during his visit to Southeast Asia. Linnington visited DPAA detachments in Bangkok, Thailand; Vientiane, Laos; and Hanoi, Vietnam, and met with senior U.S. officials in each country, as well as senior host nation counterparts. He also met with U.S. Embassy staff and Cambodian counterparts in Phnom Penh.

Nov. 16, 2015

DPAA Director Visits Southeast Asia

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Director Michael Linnington completed his first oversight visit to Southeast Asia last week to assess the U.S. Government’s efforts to achieve the fullest possible

U.S. service members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disinterment ceremony, Nov. 9, 2015, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu. DPAA holds these ceremonies to give honor and respect to our nation's unidentified dead before they are moved to the DPAA Lab for identification. The remains being disinterred are unknowns from the USS Oklahoma, lost from the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. These are the last of the USS Oklahoma to be disinterred. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (DOD photo by Spc Crystal D. Madriz/Released)

Nov. 10, 2015

USS Oklahoma Disinterments Complete

Nov. 9, 2015 — The last of the unknowns from the USS Oklahoma are disinterred and ready for identification.

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