No Longer Missing
Two More Return
Per DPAA’s “Recently Accounted For” webpage , the following formerly-missing US personnel were publicly announced as having been accounted for during the past week. From World War II CWO John G. Connolly, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. His accounting was […]
Four More Are Known
Per DPAA’s “Recently Accounted For” webpage , the following formerly-missing US personnel were publicly announced as having been accounted for during the past week. From World War II CCM Tedd M. Furr, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. His accounting was […]
Valor Friday
Late last week the KoB sent in the story about a recently recovered Marine returning home to rest. Private First Class Thomas Johnson was lost on Tarawa 22 November, 1943. He was brought home almost 77 years later to the day. The Marine Corps sent an honor guard and conducted a flyover at the funeral. […]
Another Comes Home
Per DPAA’s “Recently Accounted For” webpage, the following formerly-missing US personnel were publicly announced as having been accounted for during the past week. From World War II None From Korea CPL Paul W. Wilkins, US Army, assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost at Choch’iwon, South Korea, on […]
WWII KIA Marine finally returns home
The KoB sent in this tip that Private Howard Elmer Miller of San Mateo, CA has been laid to rest back home after 77 years buried in an unnamed grave on the South Pacific island of Betio. Private Miller died in the fierce and bloody Battle of Tarawa in November 1943. Hondo posted about him […]
Another Is Accounted For
Per DPAA’s “Recently Accounted For” webpage, the following formerly-missing US personnel were publicly announced as having been accounted for during the past week. From World War II Cox Paul L. Boemer, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. His accounting was announced […]
Another Five Return
Per DPAA’s “Recently Accounted For” webpage, the following formerly-missing US personnel were publicly announced as having been accounted for during the past week. From World War II SC1c Rodger C. Butts, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. His accounting was announced […]
Another Four Are Known
Per DPAA’s “Recently Accounted For” webpage, the following formerly-missing US personnel were publicly announced as having been accounted for during the past week. From World War II FC1c Bernard R. Wimmer, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. His accounting was announced […]
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