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Posted on 06/04/2007 5:44:35 PM PDT by Dubya
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that an electronic database listing the names of servicemembers still unaccounted for from World War II is now available for family members and researchers.
This new listing will aid researchers and analysts in WWII remains recovery operations. Prior to this three-year effort, no comprehensive list of those missing from WWII has existed.
This database, listing nearly 78,000 names, was compiled by researchers from DPMO and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. They used hard-copy sources including “The American Graves Registration Service Rosters of Military Personnel Whose Remains were not Recovered” from the National Archives II repository in College Park, Md., and “The World War II Rosters of the Dead.” Once transferred into electronic formats, they used computer programs to compare the two lists and determined possible discrepancies among the entries. These differences were then resolved using additional sources from the National Archives and thousands of personnel files from the Washington National Records Center.
After more than three years of research and coordination to transfer information into an electronic format, efforts to gather more data on unaccounted-for WWII servicemembers continue. New names and information will be added as historical documents and personnel files are located. The names of servicemen whose remains are recovered and identified in the future will be removed as families accept the identification and inter their loved ones in cemeteries of their choice.
This WWII database, along with databases listing the missing from the Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War and Gulf War, are available on DPMO’s Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo . For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site or call (703) 699-1169.
Thank You for posting this
Thank you for posting this.
How we have changed as a nation in 60 years.
LBT
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That list would include my uncle, whose ship disappeared in the North Atlantic.
Yes, I thank you also for posting this. It is very helpful.
I suspect that any good historian/novelist is combing through this list
and doing some fact checking to get another aspect of WWII not yet exposed.
Like I told my brother after “Saving Pvt. Ryan”: “I don’t think film makers
should make any more WWII films. That vein of cinematic gold has just
played out.”
But of course, someone then came along and made “Band of Brothers”
Just to show me how wrong I was.
I found my cousin’s name listed in the AAF MIA. He was lost 4/9/1944.
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My uncle’s date is wrong. They listed the DATE - One year and one day after he disappeared - That was the date he was delared KIA even though there was no body. Will have to request a review - thanks.
Thanks for trhe ping. I had no idea that 78,000 are still missing from WW-II.
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