Five More Return
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US Sailors.
From World War II
• F1c Lawrence H. Fecho, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 23 February 2017.
• F1c Walter B. Rogers, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 23 February 2017.
• F1c Charles W. Thompson, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 17 February 2017.
• StM1c Cyril I. Dusset, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 23 February 2017.
• S1c Paul S. Raimond, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 23 February 2017.
Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.
Rest in peace. You’re home now.
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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.
On their web site’s “Contact Us” 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. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.
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’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.
Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.
Category: No Longer Missing
One more returns from Vietnam also. I believe he was an EWO backseater, that went down with the jet.
Announced here (and by DPAA) previously.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=69810
Stories in the press about these individuals’ accounting and return sometimes occur at/near the time of DPAA’s announcement and are sometimes delayed a while. 1st Lt Ryan’s case appears to have been one of the latter.
Welcome home brothers. Rest in peace in your home soil now. God be with your families.
Welcome home, Brothers.
Welcome home, men.
Rest well.
William and Katy Fecho of North Dakota had seven children, not unusual for a farm family, which they were. William was born either in Germany or Russia. The 1930 and 1940 censuses differ on this. Both, however, agree that Katy was born in South Dakota. Lawrence was the couple’s fifth child and fourth son. He was born in 1922 and would have been either 18 or 19 when his life was ended directly or indirectly by the Japanese.
Walter B. Rogers was born on 21 December 1918 and enlisted in the Navy at 19. He was killed at Pearl Harbor and is memorialized at American Legion Post 255 in tiny Bison, South Dakota. The post is named Rogers Smith. In 2000, a youngster published a brief write-up of Rogers. It can be found here: http://vetaffairs.sd.gov/sdwwiimemorial/SubPages/profiles/Display.asp?P=1625
I am sorry to report that I cannot obtain corroborating information on Charles W. Thompson. The name is not uncommon both among the general population census records and WW II servicemen.
Leon and Albertha Dulcet, as of the 1930, owned their home in New Orleans in which they raised five sons and a girl. Born in 1921, Cyril was their third child and second son and nine-years old at the time of that census. By 1941, he was in the Navy, serving, as most Black sailors did at the time, as a steward. He was 19 or 20 when he Fell.
Cameron, Texas was home to Paul S. Raimond. He lived on Magnolia Avenue with his parents Charlie and Estelle, his sister and two brothers. Paul was nine at the time of the 1930 census, making him most likely 19 when his life was taken by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.
Not forgotten.
Thank you, sir, for your follow-up work on the heroes who are, from time to time, written about here.