{"id":65360,"date":"2016-04-22T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65360"},"modified":"2016-04-21T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:35:33","slug":"three-more-return-from-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65360","title":{"rendered":"More Return from World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

From World War II<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 FM3 Kenneth L. Jayne<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/em>, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI. He was accounted for on 14 April 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CPL George G. Simmons<\/strong>, H Battery, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment, US Army, was lost on 19 November 1942 in the Philippines. He was accounted for on 14 April 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PFC John P. Sersha<\/strong>, F Company, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, US Army, was lost on 27 September 1944 in the Netherlands. He was accounted for on 13 April 2016.<\/p>\n

Welcome home, elder brothers-in-arms. Rest in peace now. You\u2019re home.
\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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