https://therepository.org/last-known-position/War dead missing for decades, found and named: read from the loss report, the excavation and the lab that closed the case.enhttps://therepository.org/last-known-position/ep02-north-korea-s-55-boxes-how-100-soldiers-got-names/https://therepository.org/last-known-position/ep02-north-korea-s-55-boxes-how-100-soldiers-got-names/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:00:22 +0000On 27 July 2018 an American C-17 flew out of Wonsan, North Korea, with 55 boxes said to hold the remains of Americans missing since the Korean War. North Korea did not say whose. The laboratory would count 501 bones, from at least 250 people: about two bones per person, with one short paragraph of information per box and a single military ID tag. We follow the boxes from the runway at Osan to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory in Hawaii, through the agency's own briefings and case https://therepository.org/last-known-position/ep01-uss-oklahoma-how-394-pearl-harbor-unknowns-got-names/https://therepository.org/last-known-position/ep01-uss-oklahoma-how-394-pearl-harbor-unknowns-got-names/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:30:35 +0000On 7 December 1941 the battleship USS Oklahoma capsized at Pearl Harbor, and 429 of her crew died. After the war, 394 of them still had no name: their bones had been sorted by type at Schofield Barracks, and in 1949 they were buried in 62 caskets, in 46 graves at the Punchbowl in Honolulu, under headstones that read Unknown. In 2015 the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency dug them all up. We read the file that closed the case: the ship's action report, the 1949 board, the project leader's forensic