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There are 8,200 Missing Americans in the two Koreas |
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There are over 78,000 Missing Americans from WW II |
WORLD WAR II
KOREA CONFLICT
VIETNAM CONFLICT
IRAQ CONFLICT
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The list below is the names
the Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
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The Department of Defense
POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced
today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman,
missing in action from the Vietnam War, have
been identified and will be returned to his
family for burial with full military honors.
He is Colonel
David H. Zook, Jr - 37
of the United States Air Force, of
West Liberty, Ohio. He
will be buried in West Liberty.
On October 4, 1967,
Coronal Zook
was on a psychological warfare operation over
Song Be Province, South Vietnam, when his U-10B
Super Courier aircraft collided in mid-air with
a C-7A Caribou. The C-7 pilot said he saw the
other aircraft hit the ground and explode.
Several search and rescue attempts failed to
locate Zook's remains.
In 1992, a joint U.S./Socialist
Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) team, led by the
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC),
investigated the incident in Song Be
Province. The team interviewed Vietnamese
citizens who witnessed the crash and saw remains
amid the wreckage. The team surveyed the site
and found evidence consistent with Zook's
crash. While later examining the evidence
recovered from the site, a small fragment of
bone was found.
In 1993, another joint team
excavated the crash site and recovered a bone
fragment and non-biological material including
small pieces of military clothing. In March
2008, a final excavation was conducted and more
human remains were recovered.
Among other forensic
identification tools and circumstantial
evidence, scientists from JPAC and also used
dental comparisons in the identification of
Zook's remains.
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The Department of Defense
POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced today that the remains of a U.S.
serviceman, missing in action from World War
II, have been identified and will be
returned to his family for burial with full
military honors.
 
He is Second Lieutenant
Ernest E. Martin,
U.S. Army, of
Hanover, Montana. He
will be buried on Oct. 11 in Ellensburg,
Wash.
Representatives from the Army met with
Martin's next-of-kin to explain the recovery
and identification process and to coordinate
interment with military honors on behalf of
Secretary of the Army.
In November 1944, the 109th
and 112th Infantry Regiments, 28th
Infantry Division, were attacking east
through the Hürtgen Forest in an attempt to
capture the German towns of Vossenack and
Schmidt. On Nov. 4, the Germans
counterattacked in what would become one of
the longest running battles in U.S. history.
Martin, a member of C Company, 109th
Infantry Regiment, was reported missing in
action near Vossenack on Nov. 10.
In 2000, a German construction
company found human remains in an unmarked
grave while clearing wartime unexploded
ordnance from the Hürtgen Forest. The
remains, along with military rank and branch
insignia were turned over to U.S. officials.
Among other forensic
identification tools and circumstantial
evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed
Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also
used mitochondrial DNA and dental
comparisons in the identification of
Martin's remains.
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Three Missing WWII Sailors Are Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing
Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the
remains of three U.S. servicemen, missing from World
War II, have been identified and will be returned to
their families for burial with full military honors.
They are Ensign
Irvin A. R. Thompson,
of
Hudson County, New Jersey; Ensign
Eldon P. Wyman, of
Portland, Oregon;
and Fireman Second Class
Lawrence A. Boxrucker,
of
Dorchester, Wisconsin;
all U.S. Navy. Fireman Second Class Boxrucker was
buried in Dorchester, and the funerals for
Ensign Thompson and
Ensign Wyman are being set by their families.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma
suffered multiple torpedo hits and capsized. As a
result, 429 sailors and Marines died. Following the
attack, 36 of these servicemen were identified and
the remaining 393 were buried as unknowns in the
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
In 2003, an independent researcher
contacted the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
(JPAC) with information he believed indicated that
one of the USS Oklahoma casualties who was buried as
an unknown could be positively identified. After
reviewing the case, JPAC exhumed the casket, and
discovered that it contained what is believed to be
the remains of at least 28 other men in addition to
the three identified.
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Ensign
Eldon P. Wyman
 Portland, Oregon |
Fireman Second Class
Lawrence A. Boxrucker
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Soldiers Missing
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel
Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two
U.S. servicemen, missing from the Vietnam War, have been
identified and will be returned to their families for
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a Unites States serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified. He is Sergeant Agostino Di Rienzo, Unites States Army, of East Boston, Massachusetts. Representatives from the Army met with Sergeant Di Rienzo's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process on behalf of the Secretary of the Army. Sergeant Di Rienzo was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division then occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea, in an area known as the "Camel's Head." On November 1, 1950, parts of two Chinese Communist Forces divisions struck the 1st Cavalry Division's lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. In the process, the 3rd Battalion was surrounded and effectively ceased to exist as a fighting unit. Sergeant Di Rienzo was one of the more than 350 servicemen unaccounted-for from the battle at Unsan. In 2002, a joint U.S.-Democratic People's Republic of North Korea team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a burial site south of Unsan near the nose of the "Camel's Head" formed by the joining of the Nammyon and Kuryong rivers. The team recovered human remains. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of the remains. |
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Captain Stephen A. Rusch, U.S. Air Force, of Lambertville, New Jersey. He was buried on November 30 at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On March 7, 1972, Captain Rusch was the weapons systems officer in an F-4E Phantom II aircraft attacking enemy targets in Salavan Province, Laos. The plane was the number two aircraft in a flight of two. When Captain Rusch's aircraft was cleared to begin its second run over enemy targets, the flight leader of the number one aircraft lost sight of Captain Rusch's plane and observed enemy ground fire followed by a large explosion. An immediate search was begun, but all attempts to establish radio contact and later search efforts were unsuccessful. In 1995, a joint U.S./Lao People's Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.) team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), investigated the incident and interviewed several Laotian citizens. The team surveyed the crash site identified by one of the citizens and found aircraft wreckage. In 2001, a U.S. citizen, acting as an intermediary for a Laotian citizen, turned over to U.S. officials a bone fragment and a photocopy of Captain Rusch's military identification tag. The bone fragment proved not to be from Captain Rusch. In 2002-2003, joint teams conducted two excavations of the crash site. The teams recovered human remains and non-biological evidence including U.S. coins and life support equipment. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of the remains. |
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
He is Major John L. Carroll, United States Air Force, of Decatur, Georgia. He was be buried on November 13 at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. On November 7, 1972, Major Carroll was flying a Forward Air Controller mission over Xiangkhoang Province, Laos, when his O-1G Bird Dog aircraft was hit by enemy ground fire and forced to land. Once on the ground, he radioed the Search-and-Rescue (SAR) helicopters on his intent to stay in the aircraft. Two SAR helicopters attempted a recovery, but intense enemy fire forced them to depart the area. A second pickup attempt was made later, but the pilot of that helicopter saw that Carroll had been fatally wounded. The recovery attempt was unsuccessful due to nearby enemy forces that opened fire on the helicopter. In 1993, a joint U.S./Lao People's Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R) team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), investigated the incident and surveyed the crash site. During the site survey, the team found small fragments of aircraft wreckage. Between 1996 and 2007, joint United States/L.P.D.R./Socialist Republic of Vietnam teams, led by JPAC, conducted several interviews concerning the incident. One witness provided the team with identification media which belonged to Carroll. In another interview, a former People's Army of North Vietnam officer turned over some of Major Carroll's personal effects and told the team that local residents had buried Carroll. Another witness later led a team to the burial site. |
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Corporal Clem R. Boody, United States Army, of Independence, Iowa. His burial date and location are being set by his family. Representatives from the Army met with Boody's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process, and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army. In November 1950, Corporal Boody was assigned to Headquarters Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division then occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as the Camel's Head. On November 1, parts of two Chinese Communist Divisions struck the 1st Cavalry Division's lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. Boody was reported missing on November 2, 1950 and was one of the more than 350 servicemen unaccounted-for from the battle at Unsan. In April 2007, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (D.P.R.K.), acting through the intermediary of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi, repatriated to the United States six boxes of human remains believed to be those of U.S. soldiers. The D.P.R.K. reported that the remains were excavated in November 2006 near Unsan in North Pyongan Province. |
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Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office
(DPMO) announced that the remains of a U.S.
serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, have been
identified and returned to his family for burial
with full military honors.
He is
Major Robert G.
Lapham, United
States Air Force, of
Marshall, Michigan. He
will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery near
Washington, D.C.
On February 8, 1968, Major Lapham was
flying the lead A1G Skyraider in a flight of two in
Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. The aircraft were
alerted to join an airborne forward air controller
to destroy enemy tanks that had overrun the Lang Vei
Special Forces Camp. After completing one pass on
the tanks, Lapham was nearing his target on the
second pass when he crashed. The crew of the other
aircraft involved in the mission reported seeing no
parachute.
Between 1993 and 1998, joint United
States / Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.)
teams, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
(JPAC), traveled to Quang Tri Province two times to
investigate the incident and interview
witnesses. One team also surveyed the crash site and
found aircraft wreckage.
In 2003, another joint team
investigated the incident and resurveyed the crash
site. The team found more wreckage and pilot-related
evidence, including Major Lapham's identification
tag.
Between 2004 and 2006, JPAC teams
traveled to Quang Tri Province four times to
excavate the crash site. The teams recovered human
remains, aircraft wreckage and pilot-related items.
Among other forensic identification
tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from
JPAC also used dental comparisons in the
identification of the remains of Major Robert G
Lapham.
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POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced that the remains of five U.S.
servicemen, missing in action from the
Vietnam War, have been accounted-for and
will be returned to their families for
burial with full military honors.
They are
Lieutenant
Junior
Grade Norman L. Roggow,
of
Aurelia,
Iowa,
Lieutenant
Junior Grade Donald F. Wolfe,
of
Hardin,
Montana,
Lieutenant Junior Grade Andrew G.
Zissu,
of
Bronx,
New York,
Chief Petty Officer Roland R. Pineau,
of
Berkley,
Michigan
and
Petty
Officer Third Class Raul A. Guerra,
of
Los
Angeles, California,
all United States Navy. Chief Petty
Officer Pineau was buried in Arlington
National Cemetery near Washington,
D.C. The dates and locations of the
funerals for the other servicemen are
being set by their families. Junior
Grade Is Often Abbreviated To Lieutenant
J.G. or Simply J.G.)
On October 8, 1967,
Lieutenant J.G Zissu and Lieutenant J.G
Roggow were the pilots of an E-1B Tracer
en route from Chu Lai Air Base, Vietnam,
back to the aircraft carrier USS
Oriskany. Also on board were Lieutenant
J.G Wolfe, Chief Petty Officer Pineau
and Chief Petty Officer Guerra. Radar
contact with the aircraft was lost
approximately 10 miles northwest of Da
Nang, Vietnam. Adverse weather hampered
immediate search efforts, but three days
later, a search helicopter spotted the
wreckage of the aircraft on the face of
a steep mountain in Da Nang
Province. The location, terrain and
hostile forces in the area precluded a
ground recovery.
In 1993 and 1994, human
remains were repatriated to the United
States by the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam (S.R.V.) with information that
linked the remains to unassociated
losses in the same geographical area as
this incident. Between 1993 and 2004,
United States /S.R.V. teams, all led by
the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
(JPAC), investigated the incident more
than 15 times in Da Nang city and Thua
Thien-Hue Province.
Between 2004 and 2005,
the joint teams surveyed and excavated
the crash site where they recovered
human remains and crew-related
items. During the excavation in 2005,
the on-site team learned that human
remains may have been removed previously
from the site. S.R.V. officials
concluded that two Vietnamese citizens
found and collected remains at the crash
site, and possibly buried them near
their residence in Hoi Mit village in
Thua Thein-Hue Province. In 2006,
another joint U.S./S.R.V. team excavated
the suspected burial site in Hoi Mit
village, but found no additional
remains. In 2007, more remains
associated with this incident were
repatriated to the United States by
S.R.V. officials.
Among other forensic
identification tools and circumstantial
evidence, scientists from JPAC and the
Armed Forces DNA Identification
Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA
and dental comparisons in the
identification of the remains of this
Navy Crew.
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Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced today that the remains of nine U.S.
servicemen, missing in action from World War II,
have been identified and are being returned to their
families for burial with full military honors.
They are First Lieutenant
David P. McMurray,
of Melrose,
Massachusetts;
First Lieutenant
Raymond Pascual,
of Houston,
Texas; Second
Lieutenant
Millard C. Wells Jr,
of Paris,
Kentucky;
Technical Sergeant
Leonard J. Ray,
of Upper
Falls, Maryland;
Technical Sergeant
Hyman L. Stiglitz,
of Boston,
Massachusetts;
Staff Sergeant
Robert L. Cotey,
of Vergennes,
Vermont; Staff
Sergeant
Francis E. Larrivee,
of Laconia,
New Hampshire;
Staff Sergeant
Robert J. Flood,
of Neelyton,
Pennsylvania;
and Staff Sergeant
Walter O. Schlosser,
of Lake City,
Michigan; all
United States Army Air Forces.
Technical Sergeant Leonard J. Ray and Staff Sergeant Robert J. Flood were buried last week in Harford County, Maryland, and Dry Run, Pennsylvania, respectively. The burials of the other servicemen will be at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. on a date to be announced. Representatives from the Army met with the families of these men in their hometowns to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the secretary of the Army. On July 7, 1944, the men were aboard a B-24J Liberator that departed North Pickenham, England, on a mission to bomb a German aircraft factory near Bernburg, Germany. The plane was last seen by U.S. aircrew members in that vicinity. Captured records revealed that it had crashed near Westeregeln, about 20 miles northwest of the target in what would become the Soviet sector of a post-war-divided Germany.
In 2001, a group of German citizens
interested in recovering wartime relics and remains
learned of a potential crash site south of
Westeregeln. Later that year and in 2002, the group
found the site and uncovered human remains from what
appeared to be two burial locations. The remains and
other personal effects, including identification
tags, were turned over to U.S. officials.
In 2003, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command (JPAC) team excavated the crash site and
recovered additional remains, identification tags
and non-biological material evidence.
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing
Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the
remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing in action
from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will
be returned to their families for burial with full
military honors.
They are Captain
Warren
R. Orr Jr,
United
States Army,
of
Kewanee,
Illinois;
and Airman First Class
George
W. Long,
United
States Air Force,
of
Medicine, Kansas.
Airman Long was buried September 30, 2007 in
Medicine and Captain Orr's burial is being set by
his family.
On May 12, 1968, these men were part
of a crew on a C-130 Hercules evacuating Vietnamese
citizens from the Kham Duc Special Forces Camp near
Da Nang, South Vietnam. While taking off, the crew
reported taking heavy enemy ground fire. A forward
air controller flying in the area reported seeing
the plane explode in mid-air soon after leaving the
runway.
In 1985 and 1991, U.S. officials
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Garden
City, Kansas;
and Warrant Officer
Arthur F. Chaney,
of
Vienna,
Virginia,
both U.S. Army. McKain will be buried on Aug. 11 in
Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., and
Chaney will be buried Sept. 16 in Arlington.
