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Remains of US soldier who went missing in Korean war laid to rest after 75 years

Sgt Celestino Chavez Jr, accounted for in 2025, given full burial honors and posthumous medals in New Mexico

The Guardian - US

A teenage US soldier went missing during the Korean War. Now, 75 years later, his remains have been accounted for

U.S. Army Sergeant Celestino Chavez Jr. of Gallup, New Mexico, had left a letter with his mother telling her not to cry if he didn’t make it back from the war

The Independent UK

The Pentagon sends specialised divers to find 250 Americans lost on the ‘Hell Ship’ in 1944 in the Philippine sea

Eighty years after the sinking of the hell ship, Ōyoku Maru in December 1944, the DPAA took a bold, multi-year recovery expedition into the Philippine Sea. The Japanese hell ship was unknowingly bombed by the US in December 1944, resulting in over 1,600 prisoners of war going down with the…

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Archaeological dig to unearth wreckage of WW2 hero pilot crash under way

Exclusive: Excavation, overseen by the US Department of Defense, will feature in More 4’s Hidden Wonders TV series

The Guardian - UK

Eleven men died in a mystery WWII bomber crash. Their families have finally found the bodies

The ceremonies are happening 12 years after one of the relatives set out to solve the mystery of where exactly the plane went down

The Independent UK

US and Italy launch new effort to find remains of soldiers who went missing during WWII

In a post on social media, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said that the new pact ‘reflects values shared’ between the two nations

The Independent UK

North Korea Refuses US Request To Recover War Casualties

US faces challenges recovering remains from North Korea, finds cooperation from China in identifying missing soldiers from WWII and Korean War.

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8 decades later, remains of a Virginia sailor killed in Pearl Harbor are identified

David Walker from Norfolk, Va., was 19 years old when Japanese torpedoes sunk his battleship, the USS California, during the surprise attack on the Hawaii naval base in 1941.

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Remains of WWII solider identified as North Carolinian among first to land on D-Day

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — DNA, dental and other analyses confirmed the identity of remains buried in Belgium as a 27-year-old World War II soldier from North Carolina who died during battle in a German forest, officials with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Friday.

Tribune News Service

Thai archival find may resolve fate of missing WWII US flyer

The remains of an American airman missing in World War II may be heading home, thanks to a chance discovery of records in flood-threatened archives in Thailand

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