Skip to content

Missing Marines

  • News & Updates
  • The Missing
  • The Returned
  • Research Requests
  • Initiatives
    • Essays
    • Mapped Burials
      • Tarawa Casualties Map

Tag: tarawa

By missingmarines Posted on Jun 11, 2018June 11, 2018

Accounted For: PFC Paul David Gilman

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: 8th marines, accounted for, betio, History Flight, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Jun 7, 2018October 16, 2018

Silver Stars

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: accounted for, guadalcanal, long read, silver star, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Jun 19, 2017August 9, 2018

Back From Tarawa: James, Newell, and Murray

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: recovered, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Jan 7, 2017August 28, 2018

State of the Site Update

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: a book!, accounted for, History Flight, tarawa, update
By missingmarines Posted on Nov 1, 2016November 2, 2016

Brothers & Namesakes

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: recovered, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Oct 6, 2016August 28, 2018

Identified: Warren G. Nelson

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: DPAA, recovered, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Oct 4, 2016

Disinterment Directive

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: disinterment, DPAA, punchbowl, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Aug 9, 2016August 9, 2016

Back From Tarawa: Penna, Vosmer, and Kines

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: History Flight, recovered, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Jun 24, 2016October 16, 2018

When Jack Came Home

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Jack Prince, recovered, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on Jun 5, 2016

Corpsman Up from Cemetery 27

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: 8th marines, corpsman, recoveries, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on May 27, 2016

History Flight announces new finds

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

Categories: UncategorizedTags: betio, History Flight, recoveries, tarawa
By missingmarines Posted on May 14, 2015

IDENTIFIED: Jack Marvin Redman

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

Categories: 6th marines, TarawaTags: recovered, tarawa

Posts navigation

Older posts

Upcoming Events

No upcoming events

Accounting Agencies & Organizations

  • Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
  • History Flight
  • The BentProp Project

Research Sites

  • First Battalion, 24th Marines
  • Marine Corps Archives Branch
  • Pacific Wrecks
  • The Cost Of Tarawa: Searchable Map
  • USMC Archives – Flickr
Blog at WordPress.com.
Scroll Up
Cancel