{"id":54354,"date":"2014-08-05T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54354"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:50:14","slug":"two-more-return-from-the-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54354","title":{"rendered":"Two More Come Home from the South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\"> two US MIAs from World War II.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1st. Lts. William D. Bernier <\/strong>and<strong> Bryant E. Poulsen<\/strong>, 321st Bombardment Squadron, 90th Bombardment Group, 5th Army Air Forces, USAAF, were lost 10 April 1944 in Papua New Guinea. 1st. Lt. Poulson was accounted for on 16 July 2014; 1st. Lt. Bernier was accounted for on 18 July 2014. They will be buried with full military honors. Specific dates and locations have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . . <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,890 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,640 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA).\u00a0 Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in providing a positive ID for those recovered remains.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, JPAC has recently reorganized their web site and no longer seems to provide by-name lists of the MIAs for whom there is a need for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).\u00a0 So if you have a relative that is still MIA from World War II, Korea, or SEA \u2013 please consider <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/Portals\/64\/Documents\/Fact%20Sheets\/DNA%20Role%20of%20Human%20Identification.pdf\">reading this JPAC fact sheet<\/a><\/strong> to see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample.<\/p>\n<p>If you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample and have a relative from World War II, Korea, or SEA who is still MIA, please contact JPAC (there is an 866 number on the flier linked above) and see if they already have a mtDNA sample for your missing relative.\u00a0 If not, please arrange to submit a sample. By submitting a mtDNA sample, you may be able to help identify US remains that have been recovered and repatriated but not yet positively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody deserves a proper burial.\u00a0 That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of\u00a0 two US MIAs from World War II. 1st. Lts. William &hellip; <a title=\"Two More Come Home from the South Pacific\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54354\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two More Come Home from the South Pacific<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}