{"id":56058,"date":"2014-10-26T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56058"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T16:31:49","slug":"seven-more-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56058","title":{"rendered":"Seven More Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">three US MIAs from World War II, three US MIAs from the Korean War, and one US MIA from Southeast Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2nd Lt. Jimmie D. Collins III<\/strong>, 446th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 21 June 1944, in the Netherlands. He was accounted for 15 October 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SSgt. Maurice J. Fevold<\/strong> and <strong>SSgt. Ward C. Swalwell Jr.<\/strong>, 599th Bombardment Squadron, 397th Bombardment Group, US Army Air Forces, were lost 23 December, 1944, in Germany. They were accounted for 17 September 2014 and 3 October 2014, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CPL Lonald D. Skeens<\/strong>, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 4 September 1950 in South Korea. He was accounted for 11 October 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SGT Cameron M. Flack<\/strong> and <strong>SGT Arnold Pitman<\/strong>, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, were both lost 12 December 1950 in North Korea. They were accounted for 8 October 2014 and 7 October 2014, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SSG James L. Van Bendegom<\/strong>, B Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 12 July 1967 in South Vietnam. He was accounted for 17 October 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these belatedly returned brothers-in-arms will be buried with full military honors. Information concerning the dates and locations of their interments is not readily available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SSgt. Fevold<\/strong> and <strong>SSgt. Swalwell<\/strong> appear to have been crewmembers on the same aircraft as <strong>1st Lt. William Cook<\/strong> and <strong>Sgt. Eric M. Honeyman<\/strong>, who were identified by DPMO some weeks ago and whose repatriation and identification <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55166\">was previously discussed here<\/a>. 1st Lt. Cook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/10\/26\/recovered-remains-world-war-ii-airman-to-be-buried-with-full-military-honors-in\/\">will be buried today in Oakland, CA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). 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; they no longer seems to provide by-name lists of the MIAs for whom there is a need for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) samples to assist in possible identification of remains. So if you have a relative that is still MIA from World War II, Korea, or SEA \u2013 please consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/Portals\/64\/Documents\/Fact%20Sheets\/DNA Role of Human Identification.pdf\"><strong>reading this JPAC fact sheet<\/strong><\/a> 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. 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. 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 three US MIAs from World War II, three US MIAs &hellip; <a title=\"Seven More Come Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56058\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seven More Come Home<\/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-56058","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\/56058","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=56058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}