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Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accouting Agency (DPAA) and guests, pose for a photo during a tour of the DPAA facility on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hi., Dec. 9, 2024. Delphine Klayput and Jeanne Gibson, two Rosie the Riveters, toured DPAA's Hawaii lab and were led through the research, recovery and identification elements of DPAA's mission.

Dec. 12, 2024

Rosies Hold Part of History at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Two “Rosies”, visited the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Hawaii laboratory on Dec. 9, 2024. Jeanne Gibson and Delphine Klayput, both referred to as Rosies, received a tour of the facility and had the opportunity to hold a historical Rosies artifact recovered by DPAA.

Dr. Carrie Brown, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency supervisory forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager, points out accounted for servicemembers that were identified during the agency’s USS Oklahoma Project during a tour for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief and Nebraska VFW leaders, who visited DPAA’s Offutt laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, Dec. 3, 2024.

Dec. 10, 2024

VFW Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief Visits Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Offutt Laboratory

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Veterans of Foreign Wars Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief and Nebraska VFW leaders Visited the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s Offutt laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, Dec. 3, 2024. Timothy Peters, VFW Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief, and the VFW team toured the DPAA lab facility to gain an in-depth understanding of the DPAA mission and the facility’s operations.

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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