{"id":62879,"date":"2015-11-20T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62879"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:25:31","slug":"five-more-are-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62879","title":{"rendered":"Five More Are Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

From World War II<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 PVT Earl J. Keating<\/strong>, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 20 November 1942 on Papua New Guinea. He was accounted for on 6 November 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pvt. Robert J. Carter<\/strong>, G Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost on 20 November 1943 on Tarawa. He was accounted for on 10 November 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Capt. Arthur E. Halfpapp<\/strong>, 87th Fighter Squadron, 79th Fighter Group, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 24 April 1945 in Italy. He was accounted for on 6 November 2015.<\/p>\n

From Korea<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 CPL George P. Grifford<\/strong>, 37th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 30 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 7 November 2015.<\/p>\n

From Vietnam<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 SFC Billy D. Hill<\/strong>, 282nd Aviation Company, 14th Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade, US Army was lost on 21 January 1968 in South Vietnam. He was accounted for on 12 November 2015.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re no longer missing, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n

Now you’re home. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n

DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page<\/a><\/em>. The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can and cannot submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to refer you to someone who can answer that question – or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.<\/p>\n

If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n

Everybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n

Author’s note: the original version of this article had a typo in the date of loss for SFC Hill. That error has been corrected above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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