DPAA has apparently “slipstreamed” a few additional accountings onto their list I didn’t catch until now; some of these are therefore a bit tardy. Oh well.<\/p>\n
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n From World War II<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022 Pvt. William D. Gruber<\/strong>, 93rd Bomber Squadron, 19th Bomber Group, US Army Air Forces, US Army, was lost in the Philippines on 27 September 1942.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 22 February 2017.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pfc Jack J. Fox<\/strong>, USMC Reserve, assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost on Tarawa on 14 February 1944November 1943. He was accounted for on 21 March 2017.<\/p>\n \u2022 1st Lt. Ewart T. Sconiers<\/strong>, 414th Bombardment Squadron, 97th Bombardment Group, US Army Air Forces, US Army, was lost in Germany on 24 January 1944.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 5 April 2017.<\/p>\n \u2022 Capt James W. Boyden, <\/strong>USMC Reserve, assigned to Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 233, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, USMC, was lost in Papua New Guinea on 14 February 1944. He was accounted for on 3 March 2017.<\/p>\n \u2022 PFC Reece Gass<\/strong>, E Company, 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, US Army, was lost in Belgium on 14 January 1945. He was accounted for on 30 March 2017.<\/p>\n From Korea<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022 CPL Billie J. Jimerson<\/strong>, C Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost in North Korea on 28 November 1950. He was accounted for on 15 February 2017.<\/p>\n \u2022 CPL Freddie L. Henson<\/strong>, A Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost in North Korea on 6 December 1950. He was accounted for on 3 April 2017.<\/p>\n From Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022 Capt. Freddie L. Henson<\/strong>, 8th Bomb Squadron, USAF, was lost in Laos on 4 July 1966. He was accounted for on 13 January 2017.<\/p>\n Welcome back, elder brother-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n Rest in peace. You\u2019re home now.<\/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 DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives 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 On their web site’s “Contact Us<\/em><\/a>” page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer can be viewed here<\/em><\/a>. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.<\/p>\n If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who\u2019s been repatriated but not yet been identified \u2013 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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![can be viewed here<\/em><\/a>. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.<\/p>\nIf your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who\u2019s been repatriated but not yet been identified \u2013 as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\nEverybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DPAA has apparently “slipstreamed” a few additional accountings onto their list I didn’t catch until now; … Eight More Return<\/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-71250","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\/71250","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=71250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/portals\/85\/Images\/DNA.jpg\"){kind=link}