Tag: POW

Picture of the Day: Lead Forensic Scientist from the DPAA

Lead identifier of U.S. remains from NK

Jenny Jin of the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency speaks in an interview with Yonhap in Washington on Aug. 8, 2018. The forensic scientist of Korean descent is in charge of identifying the remains of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War repatriated by North Korea. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Korean War POW Returning Home

Korean War - HD-SN-99-03179

st Lt. Alvin Anderson, one of the many repatriated POW’s to return home aboard the USNS Marine Phoenix, embracing his mother and sister as other members of his family look on. Fort Mason, CA, September 14, 1953. Herb Weiss. [Flickr]