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Fern Sumpter Winbush, principal deputy director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, gives an opening brief to families of missing service members at the DPAA Family Member Update, Bellevue, Washington, May 3, 2025.

May 3, 2025

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Met with Gold Star Families in Bellevue

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosted its latest Family Member Update on May 3, where the agency provided updates to the families on their loved one’s cases.The event saw around 250 family

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Feb. 18, 2025

The Battle of Reipertswiller – 80 Years On

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II – and the final climactic battles that defined the war’s conclusion.In January of 1945, the United States Army fought German advances

The USS Oklahoma photographed at sea, date unknown, during World War I. The ship has been painted with camouflage to protect it from submarines. The Oklahoma was involved in the Dec. 7 attack on Pearl Harbor in which it was sunk by enemy aircraft.

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.

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