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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
Joint POW/MIA
Accounting Command
Information about Mitochondrial DNA
Related Links
The American Battle Monuments
Commission Site
Contact us.
Other sites of interest.
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We
are a small group of veterans who search for family members of certain
Korean War MIAs. These MIAs 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official records, or their family contact information is long out of
date.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 Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
requires updated family contact information 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 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, again reachable via their link
button to the left.
The
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), while previously known as CILHI, had the following statement on their web site;
"There
are still more than 8,100 service members unaccounted for from the
Korean War. Of that total, it is estimated that there are
approximately 5,100 located in North Korea, approximately 1,850 in
present day South Korea, approximately 300 aviators lost over water, and
approximately 860 Korean War unknowns interred at the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific." Newer technology, such as DNA testing has
made it possible to identify the remains of any of these men that may be
recovered.
JPAC has 5 teams dedicated to finding those
lost in the Korean War, and has been conducting search and recovery
missions into Korea for this purpose. The teams are
currently conducting remains recovery operations in the Unsan County and
Chosin Reservoir areas of North Korea. Once recovered, DNA
samples can be taken and stored, but without a sample from a qualified
family member to compare to, they cannot be identified and their efforts
will have been wasted. Again, our
only goal is to put the families of these men in contact with the DPMO in an
effort to make the identification process a success and support
the efforts of the JPAC Recovery Teams.
If
you, or someone you know had a family member that did not return from
the Korean War, check for their name within our rosters. These rosters
contain only the names of those men for which the DPMO has no family contact information. We attempt to keep them as accurate and up
to date as possible. If you find someone that you have
information for, please contact us. We will follow up and provide
the information necessary to contact the DPMO, removing the MIAs name
from the list when that contact has been established.
Please Note: If you do not feel
comfortable contacting us concerning a Korean War MIA, please feel free to contact the
appropriate DPMO Casualty Office directly. Contact information is
available by clicking here:
If you would like to obtain military records for your loved one, they
are available, generally only to the next of kin, through the National Archives. There are
instructions and forms available on their site. You can view their
page by clicking the following link:
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