U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Eleanor Franc, an experienced Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team leader who has been on five different recovery teams, sits in the conference room of the largest forensic laboratory in the world, a DPAA facility located on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) during an interview where she described the scope of her duties and past missions in Vietnam and the Solomon Islands and her upcoming missions in France and Fiji. Franc’s responsibilities include researching the recovery site and studying the case background. She and a team sergeant are responsible for the day-to-day operations at the recovery site. DPAA has been described as an organization that keeps one inviolable promise – that the fallen will never be forgotten. After more than 75 years, this promise was kept for another service member and his family. In December 2024, U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, a Sailor who perished aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB 37) during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor was honored and buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fulfilling DPAA’s mission to provide the fullest possible accounting for service members’ families and the nation. (U.S. Navy photo by Melvin J. Gonzalvo)
| Date Taken: | 02.04.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 03.03.2025 20:19 |
| Photo ID: | 8896109 |
| VIRIN: | 250204-N-KN989-1002 |
| Resolution: | 1920x1080 |
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| Location: | HONOLULU, HAWAII, US |
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