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William Cox, U.S. Army Casualty Office senior mortuary affairs specialist, speaks with family members of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Pharis E. Weekley during an identification briefing in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 25, 2023. Weekley was a navigator assigned to the 329th Bombardment Squadron when the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which he was serving was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire on Aug. 1, 1943. The aircraft then crashed north of Bucharest, Romania and his remains were not identified following the war. Weekley was accounted for on July 12, 2022, nearly 80 years after his unit’s aircraft was attacked. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan McElderry)

ORLANDO, FLA. March 1, 2023

DPAA provides answers to family members in Orlando

Orlando, Fla. — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) hosted its second Family Member Update (FMU) of the fiscal year 2023, providing families with answers on their missing family members in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 25.

Nov. 11, 2022

Veterans and scientists fulfill ‘no man left behind,’ returning long-lost American remains from lonely Pacific WWII battlefield

CNN — On a remote Pacific sandbar, replete with the ravages of war, a small group of veterans, volunteers and archeologists are doing their best to keep the enduring promise of “no man left

Nov. 11, 2022

World War II love letters help a daughter find her missing father

WASHINGTON — Sharon Estill Taylor has no firsthand memories of her father. The World War II fighter pilot was shot down over Germany in April 1945, when Taylor was just three weeks old.The war in Europe ended less

DPAA historian Dr. Ian Spurgeon interviews Maj Moffatt Burriss (Ret), former commander of Company I, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, at Den Heuvel, Netherlands, in September 2014. Three soldiers from Maj Burriss’ company are still missing from combat at Den Heuvel during Operation Market Garden.

Dec. 14, 2021

DPAA seeks families’ help for WWII Soldiers lost in Market Garden

ARLINGTON, Va. — The 93-year-old veteran walked the Dutch farm called Den Heuvel where in 1944 his forces were locked in a deadly battle with Nazis as part of Operation Market Garden. With Department of Defense

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