The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Exhibit

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The Pearl Harbor National Memorial has partnered with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to create a display case of World War II artifacts. DPAA and its predecessor organizations have been working to identify missing Department of Defense personnel for more than two decades.  

The display includes four items from DPAA including a Marine Corps branch insignia, belt buckle, entrenching tool, and a canteen which still has its plastic lid. The canteen, after all these years, has shell and coral attached, forming a concrete covering. The fifth item is a watch found on the USS Oklahoma during a cell rescue and salvage operation after Dec. 7, 1941.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa.