Two More Return Home. Will We Ever Get All Of Them?

2015-10-27T22:15:24-04:00

Two More Return Home

Hondo | October 27, 2015

DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel.

From World War II

• PVT John H. Klopp, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 5 December 1943 on Papua New Guinea. He was accounted for on 15 October 2015.

From Korea

• SFC Dean D. Chaney, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 28 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 8 October 2015.

You’re no longer missing, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your recovery took so long.

You’re home now; rest in peace.

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Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.

DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page. The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can and cannot submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to refer you to someone who can answer that question – or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.

If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a mtDNA 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.

http://www.dpaa.mil/OurMissing/RecentlyAccountedFor.aspx

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency > Our Missing > Recently Accounted For

The POW/MIA names listed here are U.S. military servicemembers who were once missing and are now accounted-for. Additional information may be seen by visiting the respective Vietnam, Korean War and WWII pages on this site.

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2015 10:19 PM

2015-10-27T22:19:26-04:00

Probably not.

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Oct 28 at 2015 7:32 AM

2015-10-28T07:32:12-04:00

We should not rest until all of our missing in action men and women have been returned

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Oct 28 at 2015 4:18 PM

2015-10-28T16:18:32-04:00

We have thousands buried in the oceans. DPAA has a waiting list of 70,000 that need to be repatriated.