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17 MIAs Home….And Counting!

Project Recover has located sites associated with over 250 missing-in-action Americans. Seventeen of those men have returned home to their families and nation. Seventy of them have been declared officially buried at sea by the US Navy, and the remainder await documentation, recovery, and identification. We estimate that up to 25 of America's service members located by Project Recover are currently in the identification process. While this process can take years, it gives us great hope and excitement to know they are very close to coming home.

Former MIA service members who have returned home to their families as a result of our work.

New Project Recover Store Item

In honor of the 20th anniversary of locating the '453 B-24, and just in time for Memorial Day, we are releasing a new shirt in our store to commemorate all of our B-24 crews and families.

The finding of the '453 B-24 led to the homecoming of eight USAAF airmen. However, we are still looking for the three who parachuted out and were later executed as POWs. You can read more (and watch the video) here about the history and MIAs involved in this case. 

To date, we've found several B-24s. Most of these cases remain in an open status.

How Will You Honor Them This Memorial Day?

In honor of Memorial Day, several Project Recover-related in-person and virtual events are listed below. If you can't attend one in person, join us virtually for our Saturday, May 11th Memorial March!

May 5th, Clifton, TX - Honoring Our Heroes: WWII MIA Memorial and Fundraiser with Project Recover - organized by Gaye Lynn Seawright

May 11th, Virtual/Anywhere! - Join Project Recover staff for a Memorial March in honor of our MIAs.

May 21st, Carlsbad, CA - To What Remains screening (Viasat employees)

May 22nd, Bainbridge Island, WA - To What Remains Screening and Fundraiser at Bainbridge Cinemas - organized by Roan Brumwell

May 25th, Seattle, WA - To What Remains screening at Seattle's Museum of Flight and post-show Q&A with Pat Scannon, MD, PhD, and Derek Abbey, PhD, USMC (ret)

May 27th, Winter Park, FL - To What Remains screening and Fundraiser at Garden Theatre, and post-show Q&A with Project Recover Team Member John Marsack, organized by Larry Wilson

We are incredibly grateful to the organizations and our individual volunteers who are helping to raise support and spread the word of our mission! 

Tribute Donations - (Jan-Feb 2024)

~In memory of CAPT Alfred M Fite Jr., WWII B-17 pilot, and CAPT David M. Fite, National Guard KC-135 pilot lost in service, from Rachel Beard

~In honor of Jerry Henderson, from Johnathan Conley

~In memory of Donald W. Shearer, from Lyslee Lowell

~In memory of Dallas L. Waggoner, Thanks for your Service, Dad, from Dave and Roberta Waggoner

~In memory of Shirley & Walter Lindsay, To my family who proudly served, from Denise Currie

~In honor of COL Charles Sumner Miller, For my grandfather, US Army First Calvary, who fought in World War I and World War II. He came home, a lot of the people he knew didn't, from Amy Denton