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The Americans shown here have been identified and returned to their
families over the past 30 years.
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office
Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii
Information about mitochondrial DNA
Family Reference
Sample list
Related Links
Contact us and let us know if you have
information concerning an MIA that may be listed on this site;
Click on the
button below to see a listing of other helpful sites.
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The
purpose of this web site is to assist in locating families of certain
men that are classified as Missing In Action (MIA) from the war in Southeast Asia. These MIA's have no next of kin listed in their
official records, or their family contact information is long out of
date. The rosters of MIAs contained on this site
represent only those men that
the
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), previously known as CILHI, requires
Family Reference Samples (FRS) for, and would like to
locate. A complete and
comprehensive list of all POW/MIAs may be found at the DPMO site by
clicking on their link button to the left.
Our goal is to put any family members that we may locate in direct
contact with the appropriate DPMO Casualty Office, in turn, making the
government's Family Support and DNA Matching programs as effective as
possible. Detailed information concerning those
programs is also available from the DPMO web site, reachable via the link
button to the left.
JPAC has
teams dedicated to locating those lost in the war in Southeast Asia. Teams deploy
to this region approximately ten times a year with missions lasting 35
to 60 days depending on the location, terrain and recovery methods. Newer
technology such as DNA testing has helped make it possible to verify the remains of any of our MIAs that may be
recovered, however, without a DNA sample provided by a qualified family
member, positive identification of remains may not be possible. You
can visit the JPAC web site by clicking on their link button to the left.
If
you, or someone you know had a family member that did not return from
the war in Southeast Asia, check for their name on our roster.
This roster
contain only the names of those men for which JPAC requires FRS
information. We attempt to keep
this list as accurate and up
to date as possible. If you find someone that you have
information for, please contact us, or the appropriate DPMO office
directly. If you contact us, we will follow up and provide
the information necessary to contact the DPMO, and will remove the MIAs name
from the list when that contact has been established. If you do not feel
comfortable contacting us, PLEASE contact the DPMO directly.
To
view MIA rosters that currently require Family Reference
Samples (FRS), click on the FRS Link button to the left.
DPMO Contact information is
available by clicking here:
If you would like to obtain military records for your loved one, they
are available through the National Archives. There are
instructions and forms available on their site. You can view their
page by clicking here:
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