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Feb. 24, 2026
DPAA conducts underwater recovery mission in the Philippines
SUBIC BAY, Philippines — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has launched one of its largest and most complex recovery efforts to date to account for Americans associated with the sinking of the Oryoku Maru, a Japanese prisoner-of-war transport ship destroyed in Subic Bay during World War II.