Two More Return
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel.
From World War II
Staff Sergeant Wesley L. Kroenung, USMC, assigned to Headquarters Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion, Fifth Amphibious Corps (assigned to 2nd Marine Division), was lost on Tarawa on 20 November 1943. He was accounted for on 7 May 2019.
Platoon Sergeant George E. Trotter, USMC, assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, was lost on Tarawa on 20 November 1943. He was accounted for on 6 May 2019.
From Korea
None
From Southeast Asia
None
Welcome back, elder brother(6)-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.
You’re home now. Rest easy.
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Over 72,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; over 1,500 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA); 126 remain unaccounted for from the Cold War; 5 remain unaccounted for from the Gulf Wars; and 1 individual remains unaccounted for from Operation Eldorado Canyon. 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. 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 is found in one of the 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
Welcome home.
Welcome Home.
Welcome Home, Warriors! We Salute your Service and pay Honor to your Sacrifice.
Welcome home. May the road rise to meet them and the wind be always at their backs.
It is a nice sunny Mothers Day here.
I wish they all could come home to their Mothers.
A little more about Wesley Lee KROENUNG:
https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=359527
And on George E. TROTTER:
https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=361822
Thanks OWB for the add ons.
Welcome Home, Warriors. I am humbled by your sacrifice.
Just this week my Brother ( actually half brother) got a phone call from a Lady at DOD .
His Grandfathers Cousin ( Harry J Hall) died as a POW in Camp Cabanatuan and was identified by his dental records supposedly and interred in The US Cemetery in Manila after the war in 1946. ‘
They emailed him documents with copies of the casualty and burial report.
They asked my Brother if he was willing t do a DNA test to help confirm ID