MIA SOLDIER WWII

[TSGT Uvin A. Clough Jr., USAF, R]

PLEASE TAKE TIME TO SAY A PRAYER FOR THIS MIA YOUNG AIRMEN AND HIS FAMLIY. THEN TAKE TIME TO SEND THIS ON THAT OUTHERS MIGHT HONOR HIM.

Airman Missing in Action from WWII Identified

                 The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office  (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from  World War II, has been identified and returned to his family for burial with  full military honors. 
Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. John E. Hogan, of West Plains,  Mo., will be buried Aug. 24, in Arlington National Cemetery.  On Sept. 13, 1944,  Hogan and eight other crew members were on a B-17G Flying Fortress that crashed  near Neustädt-on-Werra, Germany.  Only one of the crewmen is known to have  successfully parachuted out of the aircraft before in crashed.  The remaining  eight crewmen were buried by German forces in a cemetery in Neustädt. 
Following the war, U.S. Army Graves Registration personnel  attempted to recover the remains of the eight men, but were only able to move  the remains of one man to a U.S. military cemetery in Holland.  In 1953, with  access to eastern Germany restricted by the Soviet Union, the remains of the  seven unaccounted for crewmen were declared non-recoverable.  
In 1991, a German national who was digging a grave in the  cemetery in Neustädt, discovered a metal U.S. military identification tag and  notified officials.  Due to German burial law, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command  (JPAC) wasn’t granted access to the site until 2007 and excavated the location  in 2008.  The team recovered human remains and additional metal identification  tags from three of the crewmembers.                 Scientists from JPAC used forensic identification tools,  circumstantial evidence and mitochondrial DNA – which matched that of Hogan’s  cousin – in the identification of his remains.  
At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to  recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans.  Today, more than 73,000  are unaccounted for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s  mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO web site at  http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call 703-699-1169.

[Andrew Luck (Creator & Admin)]

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