Nov. 15, 2024

DPAA Hosts NDU CAPSTONE Fellows

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM — Retired U.S. Navy Adm. Harry Harris, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and the 24th USINDOPACOM commander, and National Defense University CAPSTONE fellows visited the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 15, 2024.

Oct. 30, 2024

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Makes 100th Cabanatuan Identification

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) marked a significant milestone with the 100th identification from the World War II Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines.

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.