National POW MIA Recognition Day In The United States
The United States’ National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed across the nation on the third Friday of September each year. Many Americans take the time to remember those who were prisoners of war (POW) and those who are missing in action (MIA), as well as their families.
 
Never Forget-Help Bring Them Home
As of  November 7, 2001

 

There are 1,948 Missing Americans in SE Asia
 

There are 8,200 Missing Americans in the two Koreas
 

There are over 78,000 Missing Americans from WW II

 

 




       




WORLD WAR II
KOREA CONFLICT
VIETNAM CONFLICT
IRAQ CONFLICT

The list below is the names the Prisoners of War and Missing in Action It is difficult to find the names of our Coalition Friends.

The current information comes from the United States Department Of Defense and Ministries of  Defense for our Friends I am able to locate.



 

    Remains Identified    

Michael Scott Speicher - 33
Lieutenant Commander
USS SARATOGA

 
 

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has positively identified remains recovered in Iraq as those of Captain Michael Scott Speicher.  Captain Speicher was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet over west-central Iraq on January 17th, 1991 during Operation Desert Storm.

 

                "Our thoughts and prayers are with Captain Speicher's family for the ultimate sacrifice he made for his country," said Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy.  "I am also extremely grateful to all those who have worked so tirelessly over the last 18 years to bring Captain Speicher home."  

 

                "Our Navy will never give up looking for a shipmate, regardless of how long or how difficult that search may be," said Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations.  "We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Captain Speicher and his family for the sacrifice they have made for our nation and the example of strength they have set for all of us."

 

                Acting on information provided by an Iraqi citizen in early July, US Marines stationed in Al Anbar Province went to a location in the desert which was believed to be the crash site of Captain Speicher's jet.  The Iraqi citizen stated he knew of two Iraqi citizens who recalled an American jet impacting the desert and the remains of the pilot being buried in the desert.  One of these Iraqi citizens stated that they were present when Captain Speicher was found dead at the crash site by Bedouins and his remains buried.  The Iraqi citizens led US Marines to the site who searched the area.  Remains were recovered over several days during the past week and flown to Dover Air Force Base for scientific identification by the AFIP's Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.

 

                The recovered remains include bones and multiple skeletal fragments.  Positive identification was made by comparing Captain Speicher's dental records with the jawbone recovered at the site. The teeth are a match, both visually and radio graphically.

 

                While dental records have confirmed the remains to be those of Captain Speicher, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology DNA Lab in Rockville, Maryland is running DNA tests on the remains recovered in Iraq and comparing them to DNA reference samples previously provided by family members.
 


AND
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OPERATION DESERT STORM

Name: Michael Scott Speicher
Rank/Branch: Lieutenant Commander / US Navy
Unit: USS SARATOGA
Age When Went MIA: 33
Home City of Record: Jacksonville Florida
Date of Loss: 17 January 1991
Country of Loss: Unknown
(Aircraft Pieces Found In Iraq)

Loss Coordinates:
Aircraft Downed January 16, 1991
Original Status: Body Recovered
Status Changed to Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered  May 1991
Status changed BACK to Missing in Action  January  2001
Status changed to Missing in Action-Captured  October 2002
Status changed to Recovered and Identified
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: FA18
 
 

Welcome Home
May You Now
Rest In Peace

  

Michael Scott Speicher

Jacksonville Florida



No. 571-09    August 02, 2009


 



 

 FOUND
       Private First Class Keith Matthew Maupin - 20     
From Batavia, Ohio. Killed April 09, 2004. He is attached to 724th  Transportation Co. U.S. Army Reserve.  On May 1, 2004. Maupin was promoted in  absentia to specialist by his commander at the 724th Transportation Company.

He was found and identified.
 



On Behalf Of A Forever Grateful Nation I Thank You.


 
Keith Matthew Maupin
Welcome Home
You May Now Rest In Peace
 
                Batavia, Ohio        


No. 362-04         April 23, 2004

 

 
Soldier Missing
 From The Vietnam War
Is Identified

 

       

 
           
           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. 

 


             
 

WELCOME HOME COLONEL ZOOK.
YOU WERE NO FORGOTTEN!


 

Soldier Missing In Action
From
WWII
Identified
 
            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. 

 


             
 
 

WELCOME HOME Lieutenant Ernest E. Martin.

YOU WERE NO FORGOTTEN!
 
 

 

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.

 
  Ensign Irvin A. R. Thompson 
Hudson County, New Jersey
  Ensign Eldon P. Wyman 
Portland, Oregon
  Fireman Second Class Lawrence A. Boxrucker 
Dorchester, Wisconsin

We Welcome You Home


 

Soldiers Missing
 From The Vietnam War
Are Identified

 

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 burial with full military honors.
 

They are Chief Warrant Officer Bobby L. McKain, of 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.

WELCOME HOME

 

 



 		 Soldier Missing in Action
from the
Korean War
is
Identified		  



 
       












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. 













Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
  Sergeant Agostino Di Rienzo  
 

 East Boston, Massachusetts          
                                                                   
 


No. 1340-07       November 21, 2007


 

 



 		 Soldier Missing in Action
from the
Vietnam War
is
Identified		  



 
       












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. 













Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
  Captain Stephen A. Rusch  
 

 Lambertville, New Jersey          
                                                                   
 


No. 1354-07       November 27, 2007



 

 



 		 Soldier Missing in Action
from the
Korean War
is
Identified		  



 
       












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. 













Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
  Sergeant Agostino Di Rienzo  
 

 East Boston, Massachusetts          
                                                                   
 


No. 1340-07       November 21, 2007


 

 



 		 Soldier Missing in Action
from the
Vietnam War
is
Identified		  



 
       












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. 













Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
  Major John L. Carroll  
 

 Decatur, Georgia                 
 


No. 1284-07       November 06, 2007


 

 



 		 Soldier Missing in Action
from the
Korean War
is
Identified		  



 
       












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.












Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
  Corporal Clem R. Boody  
 

 Independence, Iowa                  
 


No. 1300-07       November 09, 2007

 

 

     
     



Air Force Pilot
Missing From
Vietnam War
Is Identified
 



     






The 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. 
 
Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
Major Robert G. Lapham
  Marshall, Michigan  
     



No. 1231-07       October 18, 2007

     

 

     
     



Navy Crew
MIA From
Vietnam War
Is Identified
 








 
The Department of Defense 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.  
 
Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
     
Lieutenant  Junior Grade
Norman L. Roggow
  Aurelia, Iowa  
Lieutenant  Junior Grade
 Donald F. Wolfe
  Hardin, Montana  
Lieutenant  Junior Grade
Andrew G. Zissu
  Bronx, New York  
Chief Petty Officer
Roland R. Pineau
  Berkley, Michigan  
Chief Petty Officer
 Raul A. Guerra
  Los Angeles, California  
     



No. 1253-07    October 26, 2007

     

 

 




 Nine Missing
WWII Airmen
ARE
Identified


The 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.
 
Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
     
First Lieutenant
 David P. McMurray
  Melrose, Massachusetts
 		  
First Lieutenant
Raymond Pascual
  Houston, Texas
 		  
 Second Lieutenant
Millard C. Wells Jr
  Paris, Kentucky
 		  
Technical Sergeant
Leonard J. Ray
  Upper Falls, Maryland
 		  
Technical Sergeant
Hyman L. Stiglitz
  Boston, Massachusetts
 		  
Staff Sergeant
Robert L. Cotey
  Vergennes, Vermont
 		  
Staff Sergeant
Francis E. Larrivee
  Laconia, New Hampshire
 		  
Staff Sergeant
 Robert J. Flood
  Neelyton, Pennsylvania
 		  
Staff Sergeant
 Walter O. Schlosser
  Lake City, Michigan
 		  
     
   
  No. 1206-07      October 11, 2007
 		  





Servicemen Missing
From
Vietnam War
 Are
Identified




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 received remains and identification tags from sources claiming they belonged to men in this crew. Scientific analysis revealed they were not American remains, but it was believed the Vietnamese sources knew where the crash site was located.
 
In 1993, a joint/U.S.-Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V) team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), traveled to Kham Duc and interviewed four local citizens concerning the incident. They led the team to the crash site, and turned over remains and identification tags they had recovered in 1983 while looking for scrap metal. During this visit, the team recovered human remains and aircraft wreckage at the site. 
 
In 1994, another joint team excavated the crash site and recovered remains, pieces of life-support equipment, crew-related gear and personal effects. 
     
Welcome Home
May You Now Rest In Peace
     
Captain Warren R. Orr Jr
  Kewanee, Illinois
 		  
Airman First Class George W. Long
  Medicine, Kansas
 		  



No. 1180-07       October 02, 2007
 

 

Airman Missing
from
WWII is Identified
Second Lieutenant
Harold E. Hoskin
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
 
He is Second Lieutenant Harold E. Hoskin, United States Army Air Forces, of Houlton, Maine. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.
 
Representatives from the Army met with Lieutenant Hoskin'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.
 
On December 21, 1943,  Lieutenant Hoskin was one of five crewmen on board a B-24D that departed Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, on a cold-weather test mission. The aircraft never returned to base and it was not located in subsequent search attempts. The following March, one of the crewmen, First Lieutenant Leon Crane, arrived at Ladd Field after spending more than two months in the Alaska wilderness. He said that the plane had crashed after it lost an engine, and Crane and another crewmember, Master Sergeant Richard L. Pompeo, parachuted from the aircraft before it crashed. Crane did not know what happened to Pompeo after they bailed out.
 
In October of 1944, Crane assisted a recovery team in locating the crash. They recovered the remains of two of the crewmen, First Lieutenant James B. Sibert and Staff Sergeant Ralph S. Wenz.  Lieutenant Hoskin's remains were not found and it was concluded that he probably parachuted out of the aircraft before it crashed.
 
In 2004, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) received information from a National Park Service Historian regarding a possible WWII crash site in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska. The historian turned over ashes believed to be the cremated remains of the crew, however, it was determined they contained no human remains. In 2006, a JPAC team excavated the site and recovered human remains and other non-biological material, including items worn by U.S. Army officers during WWII.
WELCOME HOME
May You Now Rest In Peace
Second Lieutenant
Harold E. Hoskin
 

 

Soldiers
Missing in Action
from the
Korean War
Are Identified
 From DOD  ---  July 19, 2007

           

     
YOU WERE NOT FORGOTTEN
     
  Sergeant  
Donald C. Trent
     
  Corporal  
Robert K. Imrie
     
  Corporal  
Samuel Wirrick
     
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of three United States servicemen, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
 
They are Sergeant Donald Clarence Trent, of Crab Orchard, West Virginia, Corporal Robert K. Imrie, of Randolph, Massachusetts and Corporal Samuel Wirrick of Lancaster, Pennsylvania all United States Army. Corporal Imrie will be buried Monday at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.; and Sergeant Trent and Corporal Wirrick will be buried at Arlington in October.
 
Representatives from the Army met with the next-of-kin 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.
 
In late November 1950, these soldiers were members of the 2nd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, then operating south of the Chongchon River in North Korea. Their regiment's positions came under heavy attack by Chinese forces and the 2nd Battalion was forced to withdraw to positions near the town of Kujang. On November 27, 1950, Corporal Imrie was killed in action, and Sergeant Trent and Corporal Wirrick were reported missing.
 
In 2000, a joint United States/Democratic People's Republic of Korea-Korean People's Army team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a mass burial believed to contain the remains of United States soldiers who died near Kujang. The team found human remains, Corporal Wirrick's identification tag and other material evidence associated with United States Army infantry 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.

WELCOME HOME
May You Now Rest In Peace 
Donald Clarence Trent
Sergeant
Crab Orchard, West Virginia
     
Robert K. Imrie
Corporal
Randolph, Massachusetts
     
Samuel Wirrick
 Corporal
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
     
     
     
  Sergeant  
Harold R. Shreve
In the fall of 2002, a North Korean potato farmer unearthed what he thought were the remains of four humans.

He reburied them some 75 feet away. Members of a joint United States-Korean recovery team working in the region thought the remains might be some of the hundreds of American soldiers missing in action from the Korean War.

In June of this year, forensics experts utilized DNA and dental records and identified Sergeant Harold R. Shreve of Fairfield, Illinois, from the remains.

He was 22 when he was declared missing in action on December 2, 1950, during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir

Sergeant Shreve's remains will be returned to his hometown for a proper burial with full military honors - nearly 56 years after being declared an MIA.

He had been assigned to Company C of the 32nd Infantry Regiment, making up part of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, then operating along the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir.

Shreve was the son of Carrell and Etta Florence Shreve, both deceased. Born in Wayne County on March 20, 1928, he had four sisters. Two of them survive: Alberta Leona Weber of Collinsville, Illinois, and Nancy Bayles of Rinard, Illinois.
     
  WELCOME HOME
May You Now Rest In Peace 		 

Sergeant Shreve
 Private First Class
Fairfield, Illinois

  
     
     
  Domenico S. Di Salvo
     
Private First Class Domenico S. Di Salvo, United States Marine Corps, of Akron, Ohio. was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, of the 1st Marine Division. The unit was deployed near Yudam-ni on the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.

Three Communist Chinese Divisions attacked the Marine positions on November 27, 1950. During the attack, fighting and withdrawal, Private Di Salvo was lost on December 2, 1950. He and several of his fellow Marines were buried in a temporary grave near the battlefield.

In 1954, during Operation Glory, the North Korean government repatriated the remains of United States and allied soldiers including sets of remains associated with Di Salvo’s burial.

One set of remains could not be identified and was later buried in the Punchbowl, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. It wasn’t until 2006 that the remains were thought to be those of Di Salvo.
  WELCOME HOME
May You Now Rest In Peace		  
  Welcome Home Private First Class Di Salvo  
     
     
 

Missing
WWII Sailor
is
Identified

  







The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a United States serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
 
He is Fireman Third Class Alfred E. Livingston, United States Navy, of Worthington, Indiana. He will be buried on Saturday in Worthington.

On December 7, 1941, Livingston was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma when it was attacked by Japanese torpedo aircraft and capsized in Pearl Harbor. The ship sustained massive casualties. Livingston was one of hundreds declared killed in action whose body was not recovered. In the aftermath of the attack, some remains were recovered from the waters of Pearl Harbor. One set of sailor's remains was recovered and thought to be associated with the USS Arizona losses. However, when efforts to identify the sailor failed, it was inconclusive what ship he was assigned to and he was buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as The Punchbowl.

In 2006, a Pearl Harbor survivor and researcher, contacted the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and suggested that the biological and dental information on file for the unknown sailor may be correlated with Fireman Livingston's personnel file. JPAC's analysts studied the documentation and found enough evidence to support the researcher's findings that Fireman Livingston was actually recovered after the war even though he was originally listed as one of the hundreds of unrecoverable servicemen from the attack on Pearl Harbor. In February 2007, the grave for the unknown sailor was exhumed.
 
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC also used dental comparisons in the identification of Fireman Livingston's remains.

I have seen several sites that are making this announcement and some have Alfred E. Livingston as a Chief Petty Officer and others show him as a Fireman Third Class. I don't know which is correct but the DOD announced him as a Fireman Third Class.
     
 

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May You Now Rest In Peace
Hero Of World War II

  

 

Alfred E. Livingston
 Fireman Third Class
Worthington, Indiana
     
     
   
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 Marine
Missing From Vietnam
Is
Identified


     











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 Corporal Jim E. Moshier, U.S. Marine Corps, of Bakersfield, California. He will be buried in Bakersfield.

 

On June 11, 1967, Jim Moshier was one of 11 passengers on board a CH-46A Sea Knight helicopter that was inserting forces into Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, when the aircraft was struck by enemy ground fire and crashed. Pilots from two nearby helicopters saw the crash and reported that none of the men on board could have survived. Aircraft flew over the site for several hours, but saw no survivors. A ground patrol attempted to access the site the next day, but could not because of the large concentration of enemy forces in the area. Two weeks later, a reconnaissance patrol was within 25 meters of the crash site, but extensive enemy activity prevented the team from approaching closer.











     
  WELCOME HOME
May You Now Rest In Peace		  
     
Jim E. Moshier
Corporal
Bakersfield, California
     

 



 

 


 
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  AMERICA'S MISSING IN ACTION 

   
Ahmed Qusai al-Taei :  Status - Missing-Captured October 23, 2006
   
 

* DUSTWUN = Duty Status - Whereabouts Unknown

 


United States POW-MIAs and DUSTWUN
Includes Civilians

CAPTURED
THIRTY ONE
 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
HAS NOW PASSED
SINCE VIETNAM CONFLICT
ENDED

April 16th, 2004 :: Confirmed Captured: USAR Sergeant Keith M. Maupin DOI 09 APR 04
(Captured as Private First Class, Promoted in Absentia 01 MAY 04 to Specialist Promoted in Absentia 01 APR 05 to Sergeant)

MISSING
April 9th, 2004 :: Civilian (KBR) Timothy "Tim" Bell, DOI 09 APR 04
Convoy Attack, Abu Ghraib Region, Iraq - Same Loss Incident as Tommy Hamill and Matt Maupin

RETURNED TO MILITARY CONTROL 09 JUL 04
CPL Wassef ali Hassoun :: Absent 20 JUN 04, Captured 01 JUL 04

CONFIRMED CAPTURED - RECOVERED 13 APR 03
DOI March 24:
USA Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronald D. Young Jr., 26, Lithia Springs, Ga.
USA Chief Warrant Officer 2 David S. Williams, 30, Orlando, Fla.

DOI March 23:
USA Specialist Edgar Hernandez, 21, Mission, Texas
USA Specialist Joseph Hudson, 23, Alamogordo, N.M.
USA Specialist Shoshana Johnson, 30, Fort Bliss, Texas
USA Private First Class Patrick Miller, 23, Park City, Kan.
USA Sergeant James Riley, 31, Pennsauken, N.J.

DUSTWUN - RECOVERED 01 APR 03
DOI March 23:
USA Private First Class Jessica Lynch, 19, Palestine, West Virginia

DUSTWUN/Missing - Status Changed to KIA
USA Sergeant Edward J. Anguiano, 24, Brownsville, Texas - Remains Identified
USA Specialist Todd M. Bates, 20, of Bellaire, Ohio - Remains Identified
USMC Lance Corporal Thomas A. Blair, 24, Wagoner, OK - Remains Identified
USA Sergeant George Edward Buggs, 31, Barnwell, SC - Remains Identified
USMC Private First Class Tamario D. Burkett, 21, Buffalo, NY - Remains Identified
USMC Corporal Kemaphoom A. Chanawongse, 22, Waterford, CT - Remains Identified
USMC Lance Corporal Donald J. Cline, Jr., 21, Sparks, NV - Remains Identified
USAF Captain Eric Das, 30, Amarillo, TX - Remains Identified
USA Master Sergeant Robert J. Dowdy, 38, Cleveland, OH - Remains Identified
USA Private Ruben Estrella-Soto, 18, El Paso, TX - Remains Identified
USMC Private Jonathan L. Gifford, 30, Decatur, Il - Remains Identified
USMC Private Nolen R. Hutchings, 19, Boiling Springs, SC - Remains Identified
USMC Corporal Evan T. James, 20, Hancock, Il - Remains Identified
USA Specialist James Kiehl, 22, Comfort, TX - Remains Identified
USMC Sergeant Bradley S. Korthaus, 28, Scott, IO - Remains Identified
USA Sergeant Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C. - Remains Identified
USMC Private First Class Francisco A. Martinez Flores, 21, Los Angeles, CA - Remains Identified
USA Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, 35, El Paso, TX - Remains Identified
USMC Staff Sergeant Donald C. May, Jr., 31, Richmond, VA - Remains Identified
USMC Lance Corporal Patrick T. O'Day, 20, Sonoma, CA - Remains Identified
Private First Class Kevin C. Ott, 27, of Columbus, Ohio - Remains Identified
USMC Sergeant Fernando Padilla-Ramirez, 26, Yuma, AZ - Remains Identified
Sergeant First Class Gladimir Philippe, 37, of Linden, N.J. - Remains Identified
USA Private First Class Lori Piestewa, 22, Tuba City, AZ - Remains Identified
USMC Sergeant Brendon Reiss, 23, Casper, WY - Remains Identified
USA Private Brandon Sloan, 19, Bedford Heights, OH - Remains Identified
USA Sergeant Donald Walters, 33, Salem, OR - Remains Identified
Confirmed as Captured and Executed: 27 MAY 2004 Awarded POW Medal Posthumously
USN Lieutenant Nathan D. White, 30, Abilene, TX - Remains Identified
USMC Lance Corporal Michael J. Williams, 31, Yuma, AZ - Remains Identified
USAF Major William Watkins, Danville, VA - Remains Identified
CIVILIAN CAPTIVES - Status Resolved

April 9th, 2004 :: Civilian (KBR) William "Bill" Bradley, DOI 09 APR 04
Convoy Attack, Abu Ghraib Region, Iraq - Same Loss Incident as Tommy Hamill and Matt Maupin
Remains located and Identified January 2005 in vicinity of Loss Incident

August 13th, 2004 :: Captured : Civilian Independent Photojournalist Micah Garen
Kidnapped from Market Nassiriyah, Iraq :: Released 22 August, 2004

June 12th, 2004: Confirmed Captivity: Civilian Paul Johnson, Lockheed Martin Employee.
Executed in Captivity, June 18, 2004, Saudi Arabia :: Partial Remains Recovered

April 09, 2004 :: Confirmed Captivity: Civilian Thomas "Tommy" Hamill, KBR Employee. Captured in Convoy Attack in region of Abu Ghraib, Iraq (Maupin, Bradley & Bell Loss Incident). Escaped Captivity 02 MAY 04, Returned to US

April 09, 2004: Kidnapping not Publicized: Civilian Nicholas E. Berg, Independent Businessman.
Executed in Captivity, May 7-8, 2004, Iraq :: Partial Remains Recovered

September 16th, 2004 :: Confirmed Captivity: Civilian Eugene "Jack" Armstrong, Gulf Services Co.
Executed in Captivity, September 21, 2004, Iraq :: Remains Recovered

September 16th, 2004 :: Confirmed Captivity: Civilian Jack Hensley, Gulf Services Co.
Executed in Captivity September 20, 2004, Iraq :: Partial Remains Recovered

November 01, 2004 :: Civilian Roy Hallums, Saudi Arabian Trading and Construction Co
Kidnapped al-Mansour, Baghdad
Rescued September 07, 2005


 


WE WILL NEVER FORGET

SUCCESS STORIES
FOR REPATRIATION


Sergeant Elmer C. Krause
From Greensboro, North Carolina. Went missing when his convoy came under attack by individuals using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. His remains were found in Iraq about two weeks after the attacked, three days before his 41st birthday. He was attached to Army Reserve’s 724th Transportation Company, Bartonville, Illinois. His remains were recovered. He was posthumously awarded POW Medal for having Died in Captivity .

WE NEVER FORGOT



Lieutenant Colonel Charles James Ramsey

 Ramsay was listed as missing in action on January 21, 1968. The remains were were repatriated to the United States on January 1, 1998 and were officially identified using DNA sampling on July 19, 2001. Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

WE NEVER FORGOT


William A Kimsey

May 27, 2002 The military honors performed by the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment at Arlington National Cemetery are considered the model for veterans' funeral services throughout the nation: solemn, dignified and precise. Warrant Officer William Arthur Kimsey Jr. would have been 55 this year.

WE NEVER FORGOT

The caskets of 13 Marines killed in action on a South Pacific atoll in World War II remain on the tarmac at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, Wednesday, August 15, 2001. The 13 are among 19 Marines from the 2nd Raider Battalion who were killed during an August 17, 1942, raid on the Japanese-held Makin Atoll, now known as Butaritari, in the Gilbert Islands. The 13 will be buried in a common area at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. 

WE NEVER FORGOT

 
Colonel Sheldon J. Burnett
 

A 30-year wait for Colonel Sheldon J Burnett. His family has buried his remains, more than 30 years after the US officer went missing in action during the Vietnam War. Their agonizing uncertainty over his fate was ended after a  painstaking military investigation. who died after his  helicopter was shot down on the Vietnam-Laos border.

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Colonel Burnett's Daughter Trish.

WE NEVER FORGOT

 
Gary Patrick Westcott
April 24, 1951
March 30, 1972
SP5 98G26
Vietnamese Linguist

Still Missing

 

Bruce Allen Crosby, Jr.
December 26, 1951
March 30, 1972
SGT 33C20
Terminal Intercept
Equipment Repairman

Still Missing

Former Iraqi
Prisoners Of War

 
Specialist Edgar Hernandez - 21


Army Specialist Joseph Hudson - 23


Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson - 30


Army Private First Class Patrick Miller - 23


Army Sergeant James Riley - 30


Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Young Jr. - 30


Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams - 30

On Behalf Of A Forever Grateful Nation I Thank You.
Former
Missing In Action




Private First Class Jessica Lynch - 19

On Behalf Of A Forever Grateful Nation I Thank You.
 

A Pentagon team was set up in the early 1980s to investigate cases of MIAs and POWs from former US conflicts, largely in response to pressure from families and veteran's groups. Since the end of the Vietnam War, it has accounted for 747 POWs and MIAs from more than 2,500 who went missing there.

 The Vietnamese have continually raised the issue of accountability in the context of aid and/or diplomatic and trade relations, but the U.S. Government has been reluctant to negotiate on this basis, preferring instead to maintain a strict "humanitarian" level of discussion, which has resulted in the return of few remains, but no American prisoners of war.

 

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POW-MIA Status Definitions

Terminology Related To Hostile Actions

Following are definitions of several terms relating to hostile actions. The definitions are based on those established in the Department of Defense Instruction 1300.18 of December 27, 1991; Chapter 76 of Title 10, United States Code; and international laws and conventions.

Chapter 76, Title 10, of the United States Code states: "The term 'missing status' means the status of a missing person who is determined to be absent in a category of any of the following:

Missing: A military service member is in a missing (missing) status if not at his duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons as a result of a non-hostile action and his location is not known.

MIA: A military service member is in a missing (missing in action) status if not at his duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons as a result of hostile action and his location is not known.

Interned: A person is in a missing (interned) status if that person has been taken into custody by a non-belligerent foreign power as the result of and for reasons arising out of any armed conflict in which the United States is engaged.

Captured: A person is in a missing (captured) status if he has been seized as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country.

Beleaguered: A person is in a missing (beleaguered) status if a member of an organized element has been surrounded by a hostile force to prevent escape of its members.

Besieged: A person is in a missing (besieged) status if a member of an organized element has been surrounded by a hostile force for the purpose of compelling it to surrender.

Detained: A person is in a missing (detained) status if prevented from proceeding or restrained in custody for alleged violation of international law or other reason claimed by the organization or group under which the person is being held.

The following definitions are based on international laws and conventions:

Illegal Detainee: A person is an illegal detainee if prevented from proceeding or restrained in custody for alleged violation of international law or other reason claimed by the organization or group under which the person is being held. Detention is illegal if the reason he is being detained is in violation of international law or international agreements.

Hostage: A person held as a pledge that certain terms or agreements will be kept. (The taking of hostages is forbidden under the Geneva Conventions, 1949.)

Prisoner of War (POW): A detained person as defined in Articles 4 and 5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949. In particular, one who, while engaged in combat under orders of his government, is captured by the armed forces of the enemy.

War Criminal: A person is determined to be a war criminal if found guilty of violating international laws and conventions that make up the law of war.

UN and NATO Provisions: United Nations (UN) protections, for UN members serving in a peacekeeping role, are provided for under Chapters 6 and 7 of the United Nations Charter. For example, Captain Scott O'Grady, USAF, was covered as a United Nations expert on mission. As such, the warring parties were required to return him immediately. If held, his status would have been "detainee." If Captain O'Grady had not been returned immediately, his status would have been "illegal detainee."

The protections provided to NATO forces in Bosnia are a result of a "status of forces" agreement signed by the three warring parties as part of the peace accords. NATO is not a party to the conflict. NATO forces are in-country at the request of the warring parties under a status of forces agreement established in the peace treaty negotiated by the United States. Since NATO is not a party to the conflict, NATO forces are not covered by the Geneva conventions pertaining to POWs. The Geneva conventions allow the warring parties in Bosnia to hold a service member of one of the other warring parties in a POW status until the end of hostilities. The status of forces agreement in Bosnia requires all parties to return immediately NATO forces members who come under their control, while according them the same level of treatment required for a POW under the Geneva conventions.

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BB - KIA, Body Not Recovered 
CC - Detainee (civilian detainee - released)
KK - Died in Captivity
MM - Missing in Action
PP - Prisoner of War
XX - Presumptive Finding of Death
ZR - Post 1975 yacht person released
-- - Status not recorded
AR - AWOL/Deserter Returnees
BR - Body Recovered
EE - Escapee
KR - Died in Captivity, negotiated remains returned
NR - Negotiated Remains Returned
RR - Prisoner of War Returnee
ZM - Post 1975 yacht related detainee

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