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News | June 9, 2023

After 80 years, project underway to identify POWs

By Jim Mendoza

At the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, the Defense Department is disinterring more than 400 sets of remains of American service members who died during WWII. The hope: After all these years, they might finally be identified using the latest techniques.

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