{"id":77477,"date":"2018-02-04T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77477"},"modified":"2018-02-03T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:59:40","slug":"four-more-return-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77477","title":{"rendered":"Six More Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

From World War II<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022 F1c Leonard R. Geller<\/strong>, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/i>, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 31 January 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 S1c Leon Arickx<\/strong>, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/i>, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 1 February 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 S1c Donald G. Keller<\/strong>, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/i>, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 26 January 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 S1c Eugene W. Wicker<\/strong>, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/i>, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 1 February 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pfc Jack H. Krieger<\/strong>, Company A, 1st Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, USMC, was lost on Tarawa on 20 November 1943. He was accounted for on 31 January 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1st Lt. Eugene P. Ford<\/strong>, 765th Bombardment Squadron, 461st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force, US Army Air Forces, US Army, was lost in Croatia on 17 December 1944. He was accounted for on 19 January 2018.<\/p>\n

From Korea<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022 None<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

\u2022 None<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re home now. Rest easy.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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