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## News Release

# WWII Airman Accounted For (Pollard)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that twoU.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned totheir families for burial with full military honors.

They are Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Valorie L. Pollard, 25, of Monterey, Calif. and Sgt. DominickJ. Licari, 31, of Frankfort, N.Y. Remains representing Pollard and Licari, will be buried as a group ina single casket, on Sept. 19, at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. The individuallyidentifiedremains of Licari were buried on Aug 6, in Frankfort, N.Y.

On March 13, 1944, Pollard and Licari were crew members of an A-20G Havoc bomber thatfailed to return to base in a country now known as Papua New Guinea. The aircraft crashed afterattacking enemy targets on the island. In 2012 the A-20G crash site in the mountains of Papua NewGuinea was excavated and the remains of Licari and Pollard were recovered.

There are more than 400,000 American service members that were killed during WWII, andthe remains of more than 73,000 were never recovered or identified.

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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