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Push to identify remains of POWS who endured Bataan Death March, hell ships

DPAA has identified at least 20 American POWs this year using next-generation DNA sequencing and other forensic methods, officials said.

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More than 80 years later, the remains of U.S. POWs buried as “unknowns,” or entombed in the holds of Japanese “hell ships” sunk by U.S. warplanes and submarines, have started coming home to families who kept their memories alive.In an extraordinary and ongoing effort, specialists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, using new techniques including “next generation” DNA sequencing, have resumed the effort to recover and identify remains fro…

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Push to identify remains of POWS who endured Bataan Death March, hell ships

Since 2014 the DPAA has been working to identify, recover and repatriate the remains of POWs who died in the prison camps or aboard Japanese hell ships.

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Military Times broke the news in Vienna, United States on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
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