DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel.<\/p>\n
From World War II<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 CPO Albert E. Hayden<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 7 December 2015.<\/p>\n \u2022 ENS Lewis. S Stockdale<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 15 December 2015.<\/p>\n \u2022 Seaman 2nd Class Dale F. Pearce<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 16 December 2015.<\/p>\n \u2022 PO1 Vernon T. Luke<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 17 December 2015.<\/p>\n \u2022 CPO Duff Gordon<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 18 December 2015.<\/p>\n From Korea<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 CPL Kenneth R. Stuck<\/strong>, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, US Army, was lost on 2 November 1950 in North Korea.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 8 January 2016.<\/p>\n You\u2019re no longer missing, elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 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