Gandhinagar-based National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) has tied up with US’s Department of Defense (DOD) to recover and identify the remains of over 400 missing US military personnel in India during World War II.
What does the partnership mean?
In a video-conference meeting held on May 27, the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) under the DOD of USA, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the NFSU and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) under which a team from DPAA will visit India to trace, recover and identify the remains of over 400 US Army and US Air Force personnel who went “missing in action” (MIA) during the penultimate years of World War II.
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What is DPAA?
DPAA is an agency working under the Department of Defense of the US, formed in 2015 as an umbrella organisation with the merger of multiple agencies. Primarily, its task is to trace the remains of any US army personnel who has gone MIA or are Prisoners of War (POW) in past conflicts of WW II, Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War and Iraq offensive. The DPAA is in constant touch with the families of those missing. As per DPAA, the agency is currently trying to trace more than 81,800 missing personnel.
The India partnership
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