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## News Release

# Navy Seaman MIA From World War II Is Identified (Hall)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that theremains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returnedto his family for burial tomorrow with full military honors.

He is Seaman Second Class Dee Hall, of Syra, Oklahoma. He is to be buried at the Ft. SamHouston National Cemetery in San Antonio.

Hall was one of seven crewmen aboard a U.S. Navy PBY-5 Catalina which took off fromKodiak Island, Alaska, on June 14, 1942, to attack Japanese targets in Kiska Harbor.

The crew encountered inclement weather near the target, as well as heavy Japanese anti-aircraftfire. Their plane crashed on the Japanese-held island of Kiska with all seven crewmen on board.

In August 1943, the U.S. retook Kiska Island from the Japanese. Wreckage of the PBY-5 wasfound on the side of Kiska Volcano. The remains of the crew were buried in a common grave marked“Seven U.S.N. Airmen” with a wooden marker. Following the war, attempts to locate the commongrave were unsuccessful and the remains of all seven were declared to be non-recoverable.

In 2002, a wildlife biologist notified DPMO that he had found the wreckage of a WWII aircrafton the slope of Kiska Volcano. Using that information, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command(JPAC) excavated the crash site in August 2003 where they found debris from the PBY-5 as well ascrew-related items. The JPAC team also located the wooden marker as well as the remains buriednearby. Subsequent JPAC laboratory analysis led to the individual identifications of all sevencrewmembers.

Of the 88,000 Americans unaccounted-for from all conflicts, 78,000 are from World War IIWar. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

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