More than 9,400 service members killed in World War II and other - TopicsExpress



          

More than 9,400 service members killed in World War II and other past conflicts are buried as “unknowns” in American cemeteries around the world. Yet, according to a recent investigation conducted by National Public Radio and the independent nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, officials at the Pentagon in charge of accounting for American POWs and MIAs rarely approve disinterments of any of these soldiers in order to identify them through DNA evidence. On average, the investigation concluded, the Defense Department’s Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (J-PAC) gives the go ahead in less than 4 percent of such cases.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:55:00 +0000

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