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World War II Remains Return to U.S. in Repatriation Ceremony

  • Defense.gov
  • July 18, 2019 | 42:34

U.S. service members with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency take part in a repatriation ceremony on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 17, 2019. DPAA is repatriating to the United States remains that are believed to be of U.S. service members from World War II’s Battle of Tarawa, which was fought in the Pacific Theater in November 1943 on the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.