More than 80 years after the Battle of Saipan, DNA analysis helped identify and account for Marine Sergeant Frank L. Schmaltz. He was finally brought home to Louisiana and laid to rest with full military honors.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that 26-year-old US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan of Wappingers Falls, New York, was identified and accounted for.
More than eighty years after the B-24D Liberator named Heaven Can Wait crashed off Awar Point in Papua New Guinea, four of its crew have been accounted for and will finally be returned to the United States.
Twenty-five-year-old US Navy Carpenter’s Mate Second Class William R. Burns of Raleigh, North Carolina, has been accounted for more than 80 years after his death.
Learn more about the 1944 Port Chicago disaster as part of The National WWII Museum’s education webinar series.
Join us in remembrance of those who have paid the ultimate price for their country.
A conversation with Elizabeth Murphy and Chloe Melas, daughter and granddaughter of late veteran and author Frank Murphy