What the record says
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to recover and identify unaccounted Department of Defense personnel listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world.
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Where to start
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What is the last confirmed sighting, and what is the documented timeline around it?
- Pin down the last confirmed sighting: who saw them, where, and when.
- Build the 48 hours before and after from what is on the record.
- Check for unidentified persons found in the region after that date.
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Coverage and records
What is out there.
Podcast episodes
- No Man Left Behind: Slogan or Fact. Director Kelly McKeague Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency will answer that question for us.Veterans Corner Radio · 2023
- Joe Gallagher's interview with Josh Frank of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Memorial Day Weekend, May 28,2023WGY Weekends with Joe Gallagher · 2023
In the Internet Archive
- The Gulag Study 5th Ed.Text · 2005
- TPL: Bringing Our Heroes Home -- Inside The Defense POW/MIA Accounting AgencyVideo · 2022
- Staff Sgt Charles G McMackin Returns Home To Revere April 2, 2022Video · 2022
- Recovering Soldiers' Remains on Tarawa : CSPAN3 : February 16, 2019 10:35pm-11:39pm ESTVideo · 2019
- Press Release WWII Hero Major James J ODonovans Remains Identified 03022025Text · 2026
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