This morning, the DPAA announced that PFC Paul David Gilman has been accounted for as of 17 May 2018. Paul was born on 11 January 1924, one of seven children … Continue reading Accounted For: PFC Paul David Gilman
They were not friends in life, these men. They were not even passing strangers. Each spent the short arc of his life in total ignorance of the other’s existence. Outwardly, … Continue reading Silver Stars
Note: Post updated to include PFC Murray, announced 20 June. Today, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency today released the news that two more Marines killed in action at Tarawa have … Continue reading Back From Tarawa: James, Newell, and Murray
A couple of site updates to ring in the new year. First and most importantly: the number of unaccounted-for Marines has just decreased by five. I have a regular (at … Continue reading State of the Site Update
Nicholas Cancilla entered the world on December 6, 1924. He was the second son of Frank and Maria (Arcordia) Cancilla, born two years after his brother, Frank Junior. Though their … Continue reading Brothers & Namesakes
The DPAA has just announced the positive identification of Field Music 1c Warren Gordon Nelson – a member of Company E, Second Battalion, 8th Marines, who until today was listed … Continue reading Identified: Warren G. Nelson
Major news from Hawaii last night: the DPAA has begun the process of exhuming the remains of 94 servicemen killed in the battle of Tarawa. Unlike History Flight’s recent discoveries on … Continue reading Disinterment Directive
The DPAA has announced the identification of three more Marines MIA since the battle of Tarawa. Private Frank Francis Penna of Canistota, New York, served with Company E, Second Battalion, … Continue reading Back From Tarawa: Penna, Vosmer, and Kines
One day, the war ended. And Jack Prince didn’t come home. He didn’t walk through the door of 88-11 247th Street as he might have done in 1945, with a … Continue reading When Jack Came Home
On June 2, the DPAA announced the latest identification of a serviceman lost in action on Tarawa. Pharmacist’s Mate Howard Pascal Brisbane of New Orleans, Louisiana was about 22 years old … Continue reading Corpsman Up from Cemetery 27
According to this Associated Press article, Mark Noah and History Flight have located the remains of 13 more Marines lost in the battle of Tarawa – the most recent of which … Continue reading History Flight announces new finds
Thanks to the the ever-alert and excellently informative commenter TF, I’m honored to pass along the word that another of Tarawa’s missing Marines is on his way home. This is … Continue reading IDENTIFIED: Jack Marvin Redman
