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June 19, 2015

Secretary of Defense announces DPAA director

 Secretary of Defense announces the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) director today. Army Lt. Gen. Michael S. Linnington has been appointed to the senior executive

March 9, 2015

DoD POW/MIA Accounting Agency Meets With Families of MIAs

Until They Are Home.Keeping the Promise.These are the stirring mottos of two former government POW/MIA recovery and accounting organizations now merged into the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) historian, Pfc. Eugene E. Gilbreath, Ms. Christine Cohn, DPAA historian, and Dr. Edward Burton DPAA historian, (from left to right) pose for a photo after interviewing Gilbreath at the Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands Sept. 22, 2014. Gilbreath was previously assigned to the Headquarters Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II. DPAA conducts interviews with veterans of past conflicts dating back to World War II, to help locate missing Americans from past wars.

Feb. 10, 2015

DPAA interviews Operation Market Garden service members

This past year, a group of four Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) historians (Dr. Ian Spurgeon, Ms. Christine Cohn, Dr. Ed Burton and Dr. Jeff Johnson) traveled to the Netherlands to attend

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