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Welcome To DPMO

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"Keeping the Promise", "Fulfill their Trust" and "No one left behind" are several of many mottos that refer to the efforts of the Department of Defense to recover those who became missing while serving our nation.

More than 83,000 Americans are missing from World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the 1991 Gulf War. Hundreds of Defense Department men and women -- both military and civilian -- work in organizations around the world as part of DoD's personnel recovery and personnel accounting communities. They are all dedicated to the single mission of finding and bringing our missing personnel home. The mission requires expertise in archival research, intelligence collection and analysis, field investigations and recoveries, and scientific analysis.

Recently Accounted-For

Starting in 2012, recently accounted for service members will be listed in the chronological order that they are accounted for, which means that the families have been notified. In previous years, they were listed by the date of identification. The highlighted names are linked to a more detailed news release on that serviceman's identification.

  • Staff Sgt. James McKain, U.S. Army, 5th Air Force, 43rd Bomb Group, was lost on May 7, 1944, near Nadzab, Papua New Guinea. He was accounted for on March 2, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the Spring of 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery.
  • 1st Lt. Douglas H. Haag, U.S. Army, Company K, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost between July 10-12, 1950, near Chochiwon, North Korea. He was accounted for on Feb. 28, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the Spring of 2013, in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Master Sgt. Ernest W. Grainger, U.S. Army, Company K, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost on July 11, 1950, near Chochiwon, North Korea. He was accounted for on Feb. 28, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in April 2013, in Conway, South Carolina.
A complete listing of recently account-for servicemembers can be found on the Recently Accounted-For page.

News Releases


  • March 5, 2013 - U.S. Soldier Missing in Action from Korean War Identified (Wellbrock) (Photo)
  • February 25, 2013 - U.S. Soldier Missing in Action from Korean War Identified (Clark)
  • February 22, 2013 - U.S. Soldier Missing in Action from Korean War Identified (Fricke) (Photo)

A complete listing of News Releases can be found on the News Releases page.

Briefly... 2013

American Legion Washington Conference

On February 25, DASD Winfield spoke at the American Legion's 53rd annual Washington Conference. Mr. Johnie Webb from JPAC and Ms. Ann Mills Griffiths of the National League of Families also addressed the Legion's National Security and Foreign Relations Committee to update them on POW/MIA accounting efforts. At the end of the remarks, they took questions from the 148 Legionnaires in attendance.

Family Update in Albuquerque

On February 23, the DPMO team traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, along with members of the Accounting Community for the Department's 158th Family Member Update. Of the 118 family members that attended, 71 were first time attendees. The family members were extremely engaged and informed on the issues - they asked great questions, and I have no doubt that they left feeling well informed about our efforts to bring their loved ones home. The next Family Member Update will be on March 16, in Birmingham, Alabama. Family members can register for the event at: www.dtic.mil/dpmo/family_events/.

DASD Winfield Addresses Texas Tech University

On February 21, DASD Winfield spoke to students and staff at Texas Tech University about the Accounting Community's mission, as part of their Guest Speaker Program. Texas Tech's Vietnam Center has played a helpful role in gathering and providing archived information for unaccounted-for service members for many years. Texas Tech has initiated a program to geo position documents from the Vietnam War, called "Captured Documents Exploitation Center" documents, which is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Texas Tech used programming data found at NARA by one of our DPMO researchers. This program should help DPMO researchers and analysts find leads on unaccounted-for service members from the Vietnam War.

A complete listing of the 2013 brieflies can be found on the Archived Brieflys Pages

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POW/MIA Bracelet Inquiries

Members of the public often contact DPMO requesting information on servicemen for whom they wore a Vietnam War POW/MIA bracelet. They usually wish to contact the person or his family so they can send them the bracelet that they wore. Since we cannot provide the public with private addresses we have on file, we recommend forwarding a postage-affixed letter to the respective serviceman's casualty office with a cover letter explaining the request.

If the service casualty office has a current address, they will forward the letter to the serviceman or his family. At that point, the serviceman or family member may choose to contact the concerned citizen and provide them with an address to send the bracelet. There is no guarantee that this process will work. Many of the former POWs are no longer in contact with their service casualty office and this also applies to the families.

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