Missing
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
- Year
- 2015
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
What the record says
The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), as part of the United States Department of Defense, was an organization that reported to the under secretary of defense for policy through the assistant secretary of defense (international security affairs). DPMO provided centralized management of prisoner of war/missing personnel (POW/MP) affairs within the Department of Defense. On January 30, 2015,…
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Coverage and records
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In the Internet Archive
- US-Russia Joint Commission Veteran Interview DatabaseText
- Gulag Study Support Documents DatabaseText
- US-Russia Joint Commission on POWs and MIAs (Task Force Russia) Documents DatabaseText · 1992
- DTIC ADA440780: Interagency National Personnel Recovery ArchitectureText · 2004
- DTIC ADA509539: Assessment of DoD's Central Identification Lab and the Feasibility of Increasing Identification RatesText · 2009
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