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Poster art created for a ceremony held at Headquarters US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) for POW-MIA Recognition Day. Created by Felix Peguero-Luna, CIV, USA

Poster art created for a ceremony held at Headquarters US Southern Com...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Miami State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Southeast Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release S... More

Tech. Sgt. Feleena Farris-wahl, 22nd Civil Engineering

Tech. Sgt. Feleena Farris-wahl, 22nd Civil Engineering

Tech. Sgt. Feleena Farris-wahl, 22nd Civil Engineering Squadron pest management noncommissioned officer in-charge, speaks to Janice May, wife of retired Sgt. Major Lowell May, Sept. 20, 2018, at McConnell Air F... More

The Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 3d United States Infantry

The Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 3d United States Infantry

The Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), perform a dignified transfer of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Stephen V. Biezis at Reagan National Airport, Va., Aug. 12, 2015. ... More

Army veterans Camron Fox (right) and his wife Penny,

Army veterans Camron Fox (right) and his wife Penny,

Army veterans Camron Fox (right) and his wife Penny, the commander of Disabled American Veterans of Hawaii, walk to their seats before a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony a... More

Howard Mariteragi, Life Support Investigator, Defense

Howard Mariteragi, Life Support Investigator, Defense

Howard Mariteragi, Life Support Investigator, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), locate aircraft wreckage during a recovery mission to locate a missing Navy pilot. DPAA conducts global search, recovery a... More

Air Force Lt. Col. Brian Lewis and Tech. Sgt. Daniel

Air Force Lt. Col. Brian Lewis and Tech. Sgt. Daniel

Air Force Lt. Col. Brian Lewis and Tech. Sgt. Daniel Reynoso, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), sit as the flag is marched up as part of the retirement ceremony for Reynoso at the "Missing Man" memorial... More

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Yvonne Davis, a Defense

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Yvonne Davis, a Defense

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Yvonne Davis, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command augmentee, works as part of operations for a DPAA recovery mission in Rimini, Italy, Aug. 18, 2015. DPAA's mission is to prov... More

Lime 02, an MC-130P Combat Shadow that refueled assault

Lime 02, an MC-130P Combat Shadow that refueled assault

Lime 02, an MC-130P Combat Shadow that refueled assault helicopters during a Prisoner of War rescue attempt in Vietnam, stands sentry near the front gate Sept. 3, 2015, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. The Combat... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chris Walgenbach,

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chris Walgenbach,

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chris Walgenbach, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery non-commissioned officer, screens soil with local villagers during excavation operations in the Khammouane P... More

Airmen from the 39th Air Base Wing render a salute

Airmen from the 39th Air Base Wing render a salute

Airmen from the 39th Air Base Wing render a salute as the national anthem plays during the annual POW/MIA remembrance ceremony at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Sept. 15, 2017. The ceremony was held to honor prison... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) disinter remains of unknown service members at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 10, 2017. The remains will be transfe... More

Members from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., participate

Members from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., participate

Members from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., participate in the base’s POW/MIA remembrance run Sept. 28, 2018. Many Americans took the time to recall those who were prisoners of war and those who are missing in ac... More

Service members, spouses, friends and volunteers from

Service members, spouses, friends and volunteers from

Service members, spouses, friends and volunteers from Los Angeles Air Force Base and all branches of the military participated in a 24-hour torch relay in remembrance and to honor those who were held captive, o... More

The Team Hill Honor Guard stands watch over a wreath

The Team Hill Honor Guard stands watch over a wreath

The Team Hill Honor Guard stands watch over a wreath during the POW/MIA commemoration ceremony Sept. 18, 2020, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. This year, Airmen from Team Hill participated in a 24-hour vigil run ... More

Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard),

Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard),

Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), escort the remains of Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Robert E. Moessner, 24, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, during his funeral April 5, 2017, in Arlington National ... More

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Pedro Hernandez, an

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Pedro Hernandez, an

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Pedro Hernandez, an EOD technician with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Command, conducts recovery operations as part of a DPAA recovery mission in Rimini, Italy, Aug. 18, 2015. DP... More

A local villager helps with excavation operations as

A local villager helps with excavation operations as

A local villager helps with excavation operations as part of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s (DPAA) mission in the Quang Tri Provence, Vietnam, Aug. 30, 2016. DPAA traveled to Quang Tri to search for a ... More

Members of the U.S. Navy Honor Guard conduct a repatriation

Members of the U.S. Navy Honor Guard conduct a repatriation

Members of the U.S. Navy Honor Guard conduct a repatriation ceremony for Fireman First Class Charles Casto at the National Memorial of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 14, 2017. Casto, recently identified b... More

Members of the 81st Training Support Squadron participate

Members of the 81st Training Support Squadron participate

Members of the 81st Training Support Squadron participate in Keesler's POW/MIA 24-hour memorial run and vigil at the Crotwell Track at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, Sept. 20, 2018. The event was held to ... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 5, 2020. The ceremony was part of DPAA’s... More

Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA

Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA

Recovery team members assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, discover a second possible turbine while excavating the site of an aircraft crash. The ultimate mission of JPAC, and all the agencies invo... More

Local workers with the American Battle Monuments Commission

Local workers with the American Battle Monuments Commission

Local workers with the American Battle Monuments Commission work with members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a disinterment at the Manila American Cemetery in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 2... More

Ms. Shelda Hall, a linguist with the Defense POW/MIA

Ms. Shelda Hall, a linguist with the Defense POW/MIA

Ms. Shelda Hall, a linguist with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), interviews a witness to a U.S. aircraft crash during WWII while conducting an investigation in Myanmar, Feb. 27, 2018. The mission ... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alonso Lopez, assigned to

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alonso Lopez, assigned to

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alonso Lopez, assigned to theDefense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), empties dirt from a shovel into a bucket in hopes of finding the remains of a U.S. service member who went missin... More

Chief Master Sgt. Ronnie Phillips, 437th Airlift Wing

Chief Master Sgt. Ronnie Phillips, 437th Airlift Wing

Chief Master Sgt. Ronnie Phillips, 437th Airlift Wing command chief, gives a speech prior to a retreat ceremony about a family relative who was a prisoner of war Sep. 20, 2019, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. Ai... More

Marine Corps 2nd Lt. George S. Bussa, 29, of Chicago,

Marine Corps 2nd Lt. George S. Bussa, 29, of Chicago,

Marine Corps 2nd Lt. George S. Bussa, 29, of Chicago, was buried October 10, 2017, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. In November 1943, Bussa was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Mar... More

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Glen “Wally” Moorhead

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Glen “Wally” Moorhead

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Glen “Wally” Moorhead III, guest speaker, addresses a crowd during the Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day Ceremony at Langley Air F... More

Airman 1st Class Monique Lozano, 436th Aerial Port

Airman 1st Class Monique Lozano, 436th Aerial Port

Airman 1st Class Monique Lozano, 436th Aerial Port Squadron, left, and A1C Alaina Marti, 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron, extend their arms to reveal the colors of the American flag before folding it during ... More

Survey archeologist Mr. Jesse W. Stephen, a recovery

Survey archeologist Mr. Jesse W. Stephen, a recovery

Survey archeologist Mr. Jesse W. Stephen, a recovery leader with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), cleans a unit floor in the Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam, June 7, 2016. DPAA deployed seven expe... More

A repatriation ceremony is conducted for Fireman First

A repatriation ceremony is conducted for Fireman First

A repatriation ceremony is conducted for Fireman First Class Charles Casto at the National Memorial of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 14, 2017. Casto, recently identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting... More

Jessica L. Bouchet, an Armed Forces DNA Identification

Jessica L. Bouchet, an Armed Forces DNA Identification

Jessica L. Bouchet, an Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) DNA analyst, collects DNA from a family member of a missing American during a Family Member Update (FMU) hosted by the Defense POW/MIA A... More

Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 3rd Class Howard P. Brisbane,

Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 3rd Class Howard P. Brisbane,

Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 3rd Class Howard P. Brisbane, 21, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was buried June 9, 2017, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. In November 1943, Brisbane was assigned to Head... More

Navy Fireman 3rd Class John H. Lindsley, 22, born in

Navy Fireman 3rd Class John H. Lindsley, 22, born in

Navy Fireman 3rd Class John H. Lindsley, 22, born in the Philippines and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, accounted for on Dec. 18, 2015, was buried Oct. 25, 2016, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, ... More

U.S. Army Sergeant Brandon Hudgins, a communication

U.S. Army Sergeant Brandon Hudgins, a communication

U.S. Army Sergeant Brandon Hudgins, a communication technician with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), is interviewed by Mr. Timothée Janssen in the Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam, June 9, 2016. DP... More

An honor guard detail of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

An honor guard detail of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

An honor guard detail of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) personnel participate in an honorable carry ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPH-H), Hawaii, Aug. 1, 2018. Carry teams will move 55 fla... More

U.S. Army Spc. Sabrina Day, a recovery noncommissioned

U.S. Army Spc. Sabrina Day, a recovery noncommissioned

U.S. Army Spc. Sabrina Day, a recovery noncommissioned officer assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), scoops dirt into buckets during a joint field activity (JFA) in Khammouan province, Lao P... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 5, 2020. The ceremony was part of DPAA’s... More

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Raul Lianez (right), commanding

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Raul Lianez (right), commanding

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Raul Lianez (right), commanding officer, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), and LCDR Phillip Ridley, MCBH chaplain, attend the Pvt. John M. Tillman burial service at the National Memorial C... More

Family member Joyce Dalton shares a story of her loved

Family member Joyce Dalton shares a story of her loved

Family member Joyce Dalton shares a story of her loved one during a remembrance at the Korean War and Cold War Annual Government Briefings at Arlington, Virginia, Aug. 2, 2019. More than 500 family members gath... More

Deacon Jim Ernst, Patriot Guard Riding New Mexico State

Deacon Jim Ernst, Patriot Guard Riding New Mexico State

Deacon Jim Ernst, Patriot Guard Riding New Mexico State captain, speaks as the guest speaker during the POW/MIA Remembrance Ceremony on Holloman AFB, N.M., Sept. 20, 2019. Ernst spoke about the Patriot Guard Ri... More

An honor detail renders a final salute to fallen comrades

An honor detail renders a final salute to fallen comrades

An honor detail renders a final salute to fallen comrades during an arrival ceremony hosted by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command to honor fallen U.S. personnel whose identifies remain unknown. The remains re... More

U.S. Army SFC Christopher Krogman and SFC Jarrod Feldt,

U.S. Army SFC Christopher Krogman and SFC Jarrod Feldt,

U.S. Army SFC Christopher Krogman and SFC Jarrod Feldt, both assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), conduct excavation operations outside of a village in Myanmar while searching for the remai... More

A restored P-38 lightning aircraft conducts a flyover

A restored P-38 lightning aircraft conducts a flyover

A restored P-38 lightning aircraft conducts a flyover for a recovery team attached to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) in Sarentino, Italy, Aug. 11, 2019. A team of 24 U.S. service members, and gove... More

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) wreath

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) wreath

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) wreath is layed on the grass before being presented at a ceremony for National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Ha... More

Army Sgt. Edward Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, accounted

Army Sgt. Edward Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, accounted

Army Sgt. Edward Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, accounted for on Dec. 2, 2016, was buried June 7, 2017 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. In February 1951, Saunders was a member of Company K, 3... More

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Gene Harb, a team leader with

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Gene Harb, a team leader with

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Gene Harb, a team leader with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), speaks with a potential witness while conducting an investigation in Papua New Guinea, Aug. 28, 2018. The miss... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride] Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the participants] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride_IOD_5878.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride] Annual Rolling Thunde...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,] with Secretary Dirk Kemptho... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally,  [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the riders] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P_IOD_5896.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporter...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, t... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally,  [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the riders] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P_DSC_0042.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporter...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, t... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally,  [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the riders] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P_IOD_5907.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporter...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, t... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally,  [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the riders] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P_IOD_5813.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporter...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, t... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally,  [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the riders] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P_IOD_5826.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_P] [Participants, supporter...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: [Participants, supporters, vehicles on hand for the annual] Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, t... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride] Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the participants] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride_IOD_5852.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride] Annual Rolling Thunde...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,] with Secretary Dirk Kemptho... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride] Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,]  with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [among the participants] [48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride_IOD_5890.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-05-25-08_SOI_K_Thunder_Ride] Annual Rolling Thunde...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, [on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW-MIA) cause, through Washington, D.C.,] with Secretary Dirk Kemptho... More

Hurlburt Field Honor Guard members present the American

Hurlburt Field Honor Guard members present the American

Hurlburt Field Honor Guard members present the American flag during a POW/MIA remembrance ceremony on Hurlburt Field, Sept. 17, 2015. Annually, Hurlburt Field pays tribute to POWs and those who are MIA during t... More

U.S. Army Spc. Brandon Carson, with the Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Army Spc. Brandon Carson, with the Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Army Spc. Brandon Carson, with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), transfers a case containing possible remains of unidentified servicemembers, during a dignified transfer ceremony, Joint Base Pe... More

A local worker clears a field while assisting the Defense

A local worker clears a field while assisting the Defense

A local worker clears a field while assisting the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) during a recovery mission in Nghe An province, Vietnam, Nov. 29, 2017. The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest po... More

Mr. Kelly McKeague, director, Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Mr. Kelly McKeague, director, Defense POW/MIA Accounting

Mr. Kelly McKeague, director, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), along with members of South Korea's Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (MVPA) and Ministry of National Defense for KIA Recovery and... More

Airmen from the 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Airmen from the 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Airmen from the 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron carry the POW/MIA flag during the 24-hour POW/MIA event at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, Sept. 19, 2019. POW/MIA Recognition Day is traditionally held ... More

Marines from Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I escort the

Marines from Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I escort the

Marines from Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I escort the remains of Marine Corps Pfc. Harold V. Thomas, 21, of Columbus, Ohio, during Thomas’ funeral, May 7, 2017. Thomas, who was accounted for on Nov. 7, 2016. ... More

Michele Flournoy, the Defense Department's policy chief,

Michele Flournoy, the Defense Department's policy chief,

Michele Flournoy, the Defense Department's policy chief, talks about the importance of the military's mission to recover all prisoners of war and those missing in action during a Pentagon ceremony Sept. 15, in ... More

Air Force combat controllers run the prisoner of war

Air Force combat controllers run the prisoner of war

Air Force combat controllers run the prisoner of war and missing in action flag from Marek Park to the 18th Wing Headquarters at Kadena Air Force Base Sept. 21. The flag was carried from the park after the comp... More

A U.S. Air Force Airman reads the names of prisoners

A U.S. Air Force Airman reads the names of prisoners

A U.S. Air Force Airman reads the names of prisoners of war and service members who are missing in action Sept. 14, 2017, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Each year, military installations across the world honor t... More

A local Lao villager stands during a scheduled break,

A local Lao villager stands during a scheduled break,

A local Lao villager stands during a scheduled break, in the Houaphanh Province, Laos, July 17, 2018. With help from the host nation, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) missions speed up, and increase eff... More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Karina Rodriguez (left),

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Karina Rodriguez (left),

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Karina Rodriguez (left), Airman 1st Class Dyllan Hipol (center), and Senior Airman Andrea Stutts (right), MacDill Air Force Base honor guardsmen, raise the POW/ MIA Flag Sept. 20, 2... More

A U.S. Navy honor guardsmen assigned to Navy Region

A U.S. Navy honor guardsmen assigned to Navy Region

A U.S. Navy honor guardsmen assigned to Navy Region Hawaii renders a salute at the funeral of Machinist's Mate 1st Class Arthur Glenn at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 21,... More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kamron Gant, retreat ceremony

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kamron Gant, retreat ceremony

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kamron Gant, retreat ceremony flag detail member, retrieves the U.S. flag during a Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day retreat ceremony at the Wings of Freedom Park, ... More

Bloomfield High School NJROTC cadets raise the flag

Bloomfield High School NJROTC cadets raise the flag

Bloomfield High School NJROTC cadets raise the flag during the sunrise flag ceremony at Crane Army Ammunition Activity Sept. 20, 2018. Crane Army honors all POWs and those still missing in action for National P... More

George Ritter Jr., son of recently accounted for George

George Ritter Jr., son of recently accounted for George

George Ritter Jr., son of recently accounted for George L. Ritter, signs the chain of custody paperwork at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) facility on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 1... More

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Brandon Grant, assigned

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Brandon Grant, assigned

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Brandon Grant, assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), renders honors during an honorable carry at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 27, 2020. Cases cont... More

Airmen run with American and Prisoner of War/Missing

Airmen run with American and Prisoner of War/Missing

Airmen run with American and Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flags in hand during POW/MIA Remembrance Day Sept. 20, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. More than 200 Team Dover members participated in the run... More

Timothy Frank, Arlington National Cemetery historian,

Timothy Frank, Arlington National Cemetery historian,

Timothy Frank, Arlington National Cemetery historian, talks during History Series Special Narrated Tours: Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day: Never Forgotten, Sept. 16, 2016, in Arlington, Va. Th... More

A battlefield cross rests on display during an Airmen

A battlefield cross rests on display during an Airmen

A battlefield cross rests on display during an Airmen Leadership School graduation, June 21, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The graduation is a hallmark event which transitions junior enlisted Airmen into ... More

Marine Corps 2nd Lt. George S. Bussa, 29, of Chicago,

Marine Corps 2nd Lt. George S. Bussa, 29, of Chicago,

Marine Corps 2nd Lt. George S. Bussa, 29, of Chicago, was buried October 10, 2017, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. In November 1943, Bussa was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Mar... More

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) excavate during a recovery mission to locate a missing Navy pilot. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted... More

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Melvin Pollack stands

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Melvin Pollack stands

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Melvin Pollack stands in silence before a wreath during a ceremony on National POW/MIA Recognition Day Sept. 16, 2016, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Pollack was joined by, from ... More

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 225th Brigade Support Battalion,

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 225th Brigade Support Battalion,

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division fold the burial flag of U.S. Army Pfc. Albert E. Atkins, Dec. 15, 2017, at the National Memori... More

Marines with Marine Corps Barracks (8th & I) hold the

Marines with Marine Corps Barracks (8th & I) hold the

Marines with Marine Corps Barracks (8th & I) hold the American Flag over the casket of Marine Corps Cpl. Anthony G. Guerriero, at Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2017. Guerriero, 2... More

Barby, Germany (Aug. 30, 2015) - Mr. Dane Magoon, Defense

Barby, Germany (Aug. 30, 2015) - Mr. Dane Magoon, Defense

Barby, Germany (Aug. 30, 2015) - Mr. Dane Magoon, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, prepares his total station during a mission to Germany. The DPAA mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for ou... More

Robert Kent form Disabled American Veterans salutes

Robert Kent form Disabled American Veterans salutes

Robert Kent form Disabled American Veterans salutes to the playing of TAPS during the National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Recognition Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacif... More

Army Sgt. Edward Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, accounted

Army Sgt. Edward Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, accounted

Army Sgt. Edward Saunders, 27, of Baltimore, accounted for on Dec. 2, 2016, was buried June 7, 2017 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. In February 1951, Saunders was a member of Company K, 3... More

Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Kenneth Cordier, a former

Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Kenneth Cordier, a former

Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Kenneth Cordier, a former Vietnam prisoner of war (1965-1973), stands in silence in front of the POW/MIA Memorial Wreath after placing it on the Ramstein’s River Rats Memorial on Ram... More

U.S. service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA

U.S. service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA

U.S. service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disinterment ceremony held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar. 25, 2019. The c... More

Marines from Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I escort the

Marines from Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I escort the

Marines from Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I escort the remains of Marine Corps Pfc. Harold V. Thomas, 21, of Columbus, Ohio, during Thomas’ funeral, May 7, 2017. Thomas, who was accounted for on Nov. 7, 2016. ... More

Prior and retired U.S. Marines from the Marine Corps

Prior and retired U.S. Marines from the Marine Corps

Prior and retired U.S. Marines from the Marine Corps League render a salute during a burial service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, April 6, 2018. Tillman was a member of Company F, ... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chase McFeron, Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chase McFeron, Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chase McFeron, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal technician augmentee, examines debris while searching for the remains of a lost U.S. service member ... More

Shown is the an excavation site opened by the Defense

Shown is the an excavation site opened by the Defense

Shown is the an excavation site opened by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency during and underwater recovery operation off the coast of Koror, Palau Jan. 24, 2018. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and la... More

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Michael Gann, Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Michael Gann, Defense POW/MIA

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Michael Gann, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Indo-Pacific Directorate director, stands at the front of a formation during an honorable carry ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-... More

Guest speaker and combat veteran retired U.S. Army

Guest speaker and combat veteran retired U.S. Army

Guest speaker and combat veteran retired U.S. Army Capt. Rich Adams, speaks to the audience during the POW/MIA ceremony Sept. 21 at the Air Force Armament Museum. The ceremony was held in remembrance of America... More

Marine Corps Cpl. John V. McNichol, 20, of Altoona,

Marine Corps Cpl. John V. McNichol, 20, of Altoona,

Marine Corps Cpl. John V. McNichol, 20, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, accounted for on Sept. 25, 2017, was buried May 14, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. In November 1943, McNichol was assigne... More

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Army 1st. Sgt. DaNang

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Army 1st. Sgt. DaNang

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Army 1st. Sgt. DaNang McKay inspects a joint formation before an arrival ceremony hosted by JPAC to honor fallen U.S. personnel whose identifies remain unknown. The remains rece... More

U.S. Navy Honor Guardsmen assigned to Navy Region Hawaii

U.S. Navy Honor Guardsmen assigned to Navy Region Hawaii

U.S. Navy Honor Guardsmen assigned to Navy Region Hawaii conduct a burial at sea in honor of Radioman 3rd Class Jack Goldwater, Ford Island, Hawaii, June 7, 2019. Goldwater was assigned to the USS Oklahoma whic... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Mishala Nichols presents Mr. Mark L.

U.S. Army Pfc. Mishala Nichols presents Mr. Mark L.

U.S. Army Pfc. Mishala Nichols presents Mr. Mark L. Stephensen II, Vice Chairman of the National League of Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Families, a lei during the National Recognition Day Ceremon... More

Service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accunting

Service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accunting

Service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accunting Agency (DPAA) and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One Company 1-6 conduct a repatriation ceremony in Koror, Palau, Feb. 23, 2018. The repatriation ceremo... More

Mr. Kevin Dalton, an archeologist with the Defense

Mr. Kevin Dalton, an archeologist with the Defense

Mr. Kevin Dalton, an archeologist with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), gives instruction to team members while conducting an investigation in Myanmar, March 3, 2018. The mission of DPAA is to prov... More

U.S. Marine Corps retired Col. Gary Shaw, left, logistics

U.S. Marine Corps retired Col. Gary Shaw, left, logistics

U.S. Marine Corps retired Col. Gary Shaw, left, logistics operations division chief, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), passes a piece of cake to U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Blake Steadham, field investigatio... More

U.S. Army Col. Ronald Wells, a physician assigned to

U.S. Army Col. Ronald Wells, a physician assigned to

U.S. Army Col. Ronald Wells, a physician assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), examines patients during a recovery mission in the country of Laos, Nov. 8, 2018. Wells conducted humanitarian ... More

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Members of Team

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Members of Team

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Members of Team Schriever participate in the monthly warfit run 15 September while paying tribute to the nation's POW/MIA. The tribute is an annual occurence where volunteer ... More

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Joseph Duff, life support

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Joseph Duff, life support

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Joseph Duff, life support investigator with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), takes a break from screening during a DPAA mission to recover a fallen service member from th... More

Air Force Col. William E. Campbell, 37, of McAllen,

Air Force Col. William E. Campbell, 37, of McAllen,

Air Force Col. William E. Campbell, 37, of McAllen, Texas, accounted for on Dec. 5, 2016, was buried May 18 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. On Jan. 29, 1969, Campbell was a member of the ... More

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