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Jan. 27, 2025
Stewarding the Profession
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has recently selected six student interns to participate in laboratory training through the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program. The selectees include
Dec. 6, 2024
Pearl Harbor – The March of Time and The Enduring Promise
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — A total of 83 years has passed since the day that brought the United States into the Second World War, a day which President Franklin Roosevelt described to the nation as “a date which will live in infamy,” the attack on Pearl Harbor. Three generations have passed since the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, with approximately 100,000 American Veterans of the Second World War remaining. Less than two dozen of them are survivors of Pearl Harbor.
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.