Oct. 29, 2024

DPAA Completes First Recovery Mission in 13 years in China

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently completed an excavation of a suspected P-40 Warhawk aircraft crash site form World War II, found in the Hunan province of China. From early August to mid-September, 12 military and specialized Department of Defense civilians formed a recovery team tasked with searching for and recovering the remains of a pilot lost 81years ago.

Oct. 18, 2024

A Search for Answers: DPAA Begins Disinterment of West Loch Disaster Unknowns

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) worked alongside caretakers of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP) to disinter the first eight caskets of unknown service members associated with the West Loch Disaster at the NMCP, Oct. 7, 2024. The attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, is well known, but few know about Pearl Harbor’s second tragedy and one of the greatest non-combat tragedies in U.S. history: the West Loch Disaster.

Oct. 17, 2024

Long-lost son welcomes MIA father home after nearly 80 years

WASHINGTON — For most families, the news that their missing loved one from a past war has been identified comes in the form of a long-awaited phone call. However, for James Seiferheld Sr., the long-lost son of

Sept. 23, 2024

Austin Says Finding the Missing is the Nation's 'Ironclad Commitment'

Locating and identifying the remains of service members killed in conflicts remains the Defense Department and the nation's "ironclad commitment," said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III.Austin

Sept. 20, 2024

DPAA hosts the 2024 National POW/MIA Recognition Day

Honolulu, HI — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosted a National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 20, 2024.POW/MIA Recognition Day is