WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release:
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Embodying the Warrior Ethos principle to "Never Leave a Fallen Comrade," the Department of War, in Fiscal Year 2026, identified the remains of a milestone 250 Service members who had been unaccounted for from past conflicts.
This exceeds the previous record of 231 that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) made in FY 2025.
The 250th to be identified is U.S. Army Capt. Albert P. Wilcox, a 39-year-old from California. He was a prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II before being killed when the Japanese transport ship, Enoura Maru, was mistakenly sunk in 1945. Wilcox's remains were recovered after the war but were u...