What Does Closure Feel Like? By Scott Althaus, Project Recover volunteer and cousin of 2Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr. who was killed on March 11, 1944 and repatriated on Memorial Day 2025. Project Recover describes its mission as finding and repatriating Americans Missing In Action (MIA) “to provide recognition and closure for families and the Nation.” That word closure is an important one for describing Project Recover’s impact. I’m in one of the rare MIA family members who has experienced …
How Project Recover Plans a Mission By Adrian De La Rosa Most people see the end of what we do. A family receives a flag. A name gets a bronze rosette. A service member finally comes home. What they don’t see is the year, sometimes years, that came before that moment. I’m Adrian De La Rosa, chief operating officer of Project Recover. My job is to make sure that when our team deploys to the Pacific Ocean, an olive field …
At just 14 years old, William has already shown incredible passion for service, history, and honoring America’s missing heroes. As Project Recover’s youngest ambassador, he represents the next generation of voices dedicated to bringing our nation’s MIAs home. We sat down with William to learn more about him, his interests, and what inspires him to serve. What’s something fun you’ve been into lately? “Some fun things I have been up to lately are a virtual reality combat flight simulator. I’ve …
An Interview with Mark Moline, Ph.D. Innovative science revolutionized Project Recover’s ability to find American MIAs and help bring them home. Project Recover partners and co-founders Mark Moline, Ph.D., Director of University of Delaware’s School of Marine Science and Policy, and Eric Terrill, Ph.D., Director of Coastal Observing Research and Development Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography spearhead the science behind the search for MIAs. For Mark Moline, the search for MIAs adds a human connection to his work as …
The mission to bring MIAs is fast becoming a mission for every American. People who want to keep America’s promise to our missing and fallen can do so here.
George H. W. Bush is an indelible part of Project Recover history. Before it became Project Recover in 2018, Project Recover was known as The BentProp Project. We were a small group with big dreams to bring our MIAs home. Former President George H. W. Bush, a WWII pilot, was a significant part of our early years and remains so today.
Time is running out. The remains of our missing in action (MIAs) who fought and died for our freedom are being worn away by time and elements.
Dr. Mark Moline, Director of the School of Marine Science and Policy within UDel College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, speaks about work with BentProp.
Pat Scannon, Project Recover Founder, helped located the Japanese trawler President George H. W. Bush sank as a young aviator in World War II.
