A b-roll package highlighting members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery team alongside local Vietnamese workers conducting site operations during a DPAA recovery mission in Vietnam from October to November 2024. Recovery teams under a DPAA scientific recovery experts guidance may dig, screen and conduct other specialty jobs throughout the mission. There are currently 1,574 personnel missing from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Annaliss Candelaria)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) marked a significant milestone with the 100th identification from the World War II Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines.
With the Sept. 9, 2024, accounting of Army Corporal Billie Charles Driver, 18, from Dallas, Texas, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency marked the identification of the 700th missing personnel from the Korean War.
