November 2001
Summary of news for the entire month.
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November 29, 2001 WW II - Repatriation of WW II Remains
The remains of a ten-man U.S. Army Air Corps bomber crew, missing in action from World War II, have been recovered, identified and returned to their families in the United States.
November 29, 2001 K-CW - Korean War Remains Recovered
Remains believed to be those of eight American soldiers, missing in action from the Korean War, will be repatriated in formal ceremonies Saturday, Korea time. This repatriation marks the end of this year's operations.
November 28, 2001 DoD News Release
The Honorable Jerry D. Jennings, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs wasted no time in visiting the front lines of the full-accounting mission, after assuming his current post in August.
November 28, 2001 DPMO Bio - Jerry Jennings
Mr. Jerry D. Jennings was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs in August 2001. Mr. Jennings is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for policy, control and oversight of all matters pertaining to missing personnel, and for establishing uniform policies and procedures leading to the fullest possible accounting of Americans missing in action from all conflicts.
November 28, 2001 WW II - Remains of WW II Crew Recovered
The remains of a ten-man U.S. Army Air Corps bomber crew, missing in action from World War II, have been recovered, identified and returned to their families in the United States.
November 27, 2001 DPMO Family Update Schedule 2002
Jan 12 - San Diego, CA :: Jan 15 - Honolulu, HI :: Feb 23 - Dallas, TX (NEW LOCATION - moved from Amarillo) :: Mar 23 - Charlotte, NC :: Apr 20 - Portland, OR :: May 18 - Columbus, OH :: Jun 20-22 - Washington, DC :: Jul 26 - Washington, DC :: Aug 17 - Kansas City, MO :: Sep 21 - Albany, NY :: Oct 26 - Salt Lake City, UT :: Nov 16 - Tampa, FL
November 26, 2001 SEA - NLF Update Line
Family Update November 26, 2001 Families Keep Faith
Phyllis Roper first learned her Uncle Gerald was a prisoner of war through a faded family picture. She was thumbing through an old photo album years ago with her father when she spotted an unfamiliar face and asked, "Who's this?" "That's my brother," her dad said.
November 25, 2001 Honoring Vets
This year's parade was the seventh annual Veterans' Day run that ended at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. This year it wrapped up with a gathering of men and women for a special wartime ceremony.
November 25, 2001 NK - Another Escape
A former South Korean soldier who was captured during the 1950-53 Korean War has returned home after fleeing the North, the government said Saturday.
November 25, 2001 School For Escape
When fighter pilot Scott O'Grady's F-16 was shot down over Bosnia in 1995, he used what he learned here, in the dark forests outside Fairchild Air Force Base, to stay alive and evade capture for six days.
November 23, 2001 WW II - Mass Graves Discovered
Polish archaeologists excavating the Nazi death camp in Sobibor said on Friday they had found mass graves at the site, which was evacuated by German occupying forces in October 1943 after a prisoner uprising.
November 20, 2001 JCSD Trip Report
Trip Report for TDY to Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk, Russia :: 9-26 September 2001
November 20, 2001 WTC - Questions of Status
The use of special military courts to try foreigners accused in the Sept. 11 attacks may be a ''quick fix'' in bringing suspects to trial but will deny defendants many of the protections of U.S. criminal courts, said legal experts Wednesday. In a legal tool last used in World War Two, President Bush signed an executive order Tuesday declaring that foreigners arrested on terrorism charges could be tried in any place or time by military courts, which are often secret.
November 19, 2001 JCSD White Paper
The Gulag Study is a compilation of reports asserting that U.S. servicemen were held in Soviet camps and prisons. The study draws upon accounts from varied sources, many of whom claim to have been incarcerated in the Soviet Gulag system. The memoirs of a former Soviet Gulag inmate who lists several names that correlate to missing U.S. servicemen comprise a significant contribution to this study, which was originally prepared as a working document by the U.S. side of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs.
November 17, 2001 WW II - Japan Court Dismisses Suit
Japan's highest court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a South Korean man who sought a pension and damages after losing his arm as a soldier in the Japanese wartime military.
November 14, 2001 SEA - NLF Update
Family Update
November 14, 2001 SEA - NLF Update Line
Family News
November 13, 2001 PGW - Iraq's Secret Jail
Two men who worked for Iraqi intelligence before defecting to the West have reported seeing 80 Kuwaiti men in a secret prison near Baghdad as recently as last year, almost a decade after they were captured during the Gulf War, an Iraqi opposition group said Monday.
November 10, 2001 HR 1161 By Request
To mandate the display of the POW/MIA flag on various occasions and in various locations.
November 10, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
Summary of News
November 10, 2001 Price of Freedom
Erica wrote about her grandfather, a World War II prisoner of war in Germany and the harsh life he endured in the POW camp.
November 09, 2001 Veterans Sought For Oral History
Millions of veterans of American wars from 1917 to 1991 - World War I to the Gulf War - will get the chance to take part in an oral history project that will be available to the public in mid-2002.
November 07, 2001 Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: When you printed my letter about the thousands of former prisoners of war who had never gone to the Department of Veterans Affairs (news - web sites) about benefits available to them, you touched many lives. It has enabled many former POWs and/or their spouses or widows to finally receive benefits due them. We American Ex-Prisoners of War have been extra-busy because of what you did.
November 02, 2001 SEA - Search Team Deploys to Laos
A Joint Field Activity consisting of five recovery teams will deploy from Hickam Air Force Base to Laos this weekend, with hopes of recovering remains leading to the identification of Americans still unaccounted for from the war in Southeast Asia. The teams consist of 50 mostly Hawaii-based U.S. military specialists from Joint Task Force-Full Accounting and the U.S. ArmyÕs Central Identification Laboratory, Hawai'i.
POW-MIA Issue Update December 2001