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Team members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency collect and move soil to be screened while searching for potential remains from a suspected P-40 Warhawk that crashed in 1943 in the Hunan province of China, September 9. 2024.

Oct. 29, 2024

DPAA Completes First Recovery Mission in 13 years in China

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently completed an excavation of a suspected P-40 Warhawk aircraft crash site form World War II, found in the Hunan province of China. From early August to mid-September, 12 military and specialized Department of Defense civilians formed a recovery team tasked with searching for and recovering the remains of a pilot lost 81years ago.

The 2024 DPAA Partner Symposium attendees gather for a group photo at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans on April 16. More than 60 partner attendees representing 30 partners and more than 25 DPAA personnel attended the 3rd annual symposium, which greatly advanced internal and external collaboration while generating new ways to improve communication and enhance partners’ contributions to increasing DPAA’s capabilities and capacity.

April 24, 2024

DPAA Brings Partners Together for 3rd Annual Symposium

NEW ORLEANS — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and 30 partner organizations met in New Orleans April 16-17 for their annual Partner Symposium in order to build relationships and exchange ideas about

Members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team dig in an excavation unit during a DPAA recovery mission in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan McElderry)

Dec. 30, 2021

AFCLC and DPAA: A Partnership for Mission Success

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Since 2012, Language Enabled Airman Program Scholars and Foreign Area Officers from the Air Force Culture and Language Center have helped to support the Defense POW/MIA Agency’s mission. What started as linguistic support for DPAA’s Short-term Individual Augmentee Sourcing Conference has now developed into life-changing language, cultural and tactical support in helping DPAA connect with families of missing personnel.

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Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency PAO
Washington, D.C.
2300 Defense Pentagon
Attn: Outreach and Communications
Washington, D.C. 20301-2300
Email: dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil