Story by Staff Sgt. Connor Davis | U.S. Army Japan | 06.20.2025
‘Will my children ever meet the children of the Airmen I had to execute?’
Story by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 01.17.2025
In January 1948, the 441st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment gained responsibility for screening Japanese prisoners of war returning from Soviet POW camps. Through a series of surveys, the CIC was able to track the effects of political propaganda on long-held Japanese prisoners in communist Russia....
Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 02.09.2024
On 12 February 1973, the first American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam were released as part of a peace agreement between the U.S. and the communist country. Initially called EGRESS RECAP, the phased process of repatriation became better known as Operation HOMECOMING. It included an intelligence debriefing conducted by counterintelligence agents of the U.S. Army Intelligence Command....
Story by Senior Airman Rebeckah Valladares | 23rd Wing | 04.21.2023
In honor of the Bataan Death March prisoners of war, service members from Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, partnered with the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office for the third annual memorial Bataan Death March, April 8, 2023, to march 66 miles with various obstacle courses, representing the miles that American and Filipino POWs had to endure....
Story by Airman 1st Class Parker McCauley | 509th Bomb Wing | 09.21.2020
Members of Team Whiteman ran, walked and rucked for 24 hours to honor and remember prisoners of war and those missing in action at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Sept. 17-18, 2020. More than 125 volunteers participated in the 24-hour POW/MIA Remembrance event by completing laps around the Ike Skelton Lake and reading out the names of the approximately 82,000 American service members who......
Story by 1st Lt. Cody Stagner | 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.01.2020
Kentucky picker recovers historical artifacts once belonging to Kentucky Guardsman, World War II prisoner of war. This is the second part in a two-part series. Part 1 is a news release covering the discovery of lost artifacts. Part 2 is a brief history of the Kentucky Army National Guard Sgt. Ernest L. Sampson, Jr., a member of the 192nd Tank Battalion, and his survival as captive of enemy......
Story by Master Sgt. Ryan Matson | 652nd Regional Support Group | 03.06.2020
The 1209th Medical Company (Area Support), New Mexico National Guard, brought the Bataan Memorial Death March with them to Powidz, Poland, on March 6. The 1209th is mobilized to Poland in support of Atlantic Resolve, and with the Bataan Memorial Death March in White Sands, New Mexico, recently canceled due to the Coronavirus breakout, the march in Poland may be the lone event commemorating the......
Story by Kristin Molinaro | Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime | 09.24.2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Defense Federal Community commemorated Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day Sept. 21 at the Defense Supply Center Columbus. Since 1986, the third Friday in September is set aside to remember those taken prisoner or reported missing in America’s conflicts. This year’s featured speaker was Jack Kull, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s Strategic......
