Tue, Jun 05, 2007
Intended To Aid Researchers, Family Members
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced this week an electronic database listing the names of
servicemembers still unaccounted for from World War II is now
available for family members and researchers. The service tells ANN
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 -- many of them
airmen -- 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names and information will be added as historical documents and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 the FMI link below.
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