Friday, February 28th – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has publicly announced that they have positively identified the remains of 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum who had been missing in action since 1944. McCollum entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Cleveland, Ohio. The initial survey and the recovery projects leading up to these identifications were completed in partnership with Project Recover and other experts in the field. McCollum was a bombardier assigned to the 565th Bombardment Squadron, 389th …
Remains of Wichita Airman Positively Identified 80 Years After Final Mission
February 25, 2025 – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), in partnership with Project Recover and other experts in the field, has announced that they have positively identified the remains of 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, who had been Missing In Action since World War II. The 24-year-old from Wichita, KS served as pilot in a B-24 bomber named Heaven Can Wait that was shot down over a remote bay in Papua New Guinea on March 11, 1944. In 2017 …
Project Recover Welcomes New Advisory Council Member
Major General William J. Walker, USA (Ret.) Chief Security Officer, Allied Universal, brings leadership expertise and passion to help return American service members missing in action Project Recover, a global nonprofit dedicated to repatriating American service members missing in action (MIA) and providing answers and closure to MIA Gold Star Families, is proud to announce the appointment of Major General William J. Walker (Ret.) to its Advisory Council. “We are honored to welcome MG Walker, Chief Security Officer for Allied Universal, …
Remains of Wappinger Falls Airman Positively Identified 80 Years After Final Mission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2025 – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), in partnership with Project Recover and other experts in the field, has announced that they have positively identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan who had been Missing In Action since World War II. The 26-year-old from Wappinger Falls, NY served as radio operator in a B-24 bomber named Heaven Can Wait that was shot down over a remote bay in Papua New Guinea on …
Project Recover Welcomes New Advisory Council Members
Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV, USN (Ret), Bridget Guerrero CBCP, and Stacy McCarthy PCC bring their leadership expertise and passion to help return American service members missing in action Project Recover, a global nonprofit dedicated to repatriating American service members missing in action and providing answers and closure to MIA Gold Star Families, is proud to announce the appointment of three distinguished leaders to its Advisory Council. Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV, USN (Ret); Bridget Guerrero, Director, Security Strategy and …
Project Recover Announces New Mission: Locate US Air Force B-52 and Aircrew Gone Missing Offshore Texas Coast in 1968
“Rog 88” was the pilot’s abbreviated, almost casual response to the duty controller’s request for a radio check. On hearing that standard radio-communications exchange over the intercom of his remote radar bomb scoring (RBS) site on the Texas shoreline, the young radar operator broke lock on the massive B-52 bomber he’d been tracking and repositioned the antenna atop his trailer 140° to the left. Satisfied the pencil beam of his radar was trained on the bomb run “front door” 70 …
Remains of Livermore Airman Positively Identified 80 Years After Final Mission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17th, 2024 – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), in partnership with Project Recover and other experts in the field, has announced that they have positively identified the remains of 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr., who had been Missing In Action since World War II. The 21-year-old from Livermore, CA served as bombardier in a B-24 bomber named “Heaven Can Wait” that was shot down over a remote bay in Papua New Guinea on March …
Remembering Our Heroes: 2nd Lt. Arthur J. Schumacher, USAAF
Guest post by Lynne Hasselman Behind every name engraved on one of our national cemetery’s Tablets of the Missing is an indelible story etched on the hearts of their loved ones. Despite the passage of time, these American heroes live on in faded black and white photographs, yellowed letters home, and faded telegrams marked with tears. Out of 81,500 American service members missing in action (MIA), 72,000 were from World War II. Their lives were marked by war, but it …
DPAA Accounts for LT Jay R. Manown, Jr.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that, in partnership with Project Recover and other experts in the field, they accounted for LT Jay R. Manown, Jr. LT Manown was a TBM-1c Avenger pilot who, until this announcement, was Missing in Action. Project Recover located the downed Avenger in Palauan waters in 2015. The Avenger took off from the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier on September 10, 1944. The crew was part of Torpedo Squadron 20 (VT-20), which was on a …
Kenneth Whitesell, VADM, USN(ret.) Joins Project Recover Board of Directors
Project Recover is pleased to announce the appointment of its newest board member, Vice Admiral Kenneth Whitesell, United States Navy retired. Kenneth’s introduction to and journey toward this unique organization began over Memorial Day weekend, 2023, when Mount Soledad National Veterans Memorial chose to honor and memorialize former MIA, Aviation Radioman 3rd Class Walter Mintus. As then the Commander of the Naval Air Forces, he was invited to share the podium with Project Recover’s Pat Scannon. As part of his …
