Before 10 April 2018 , there were still more than 72,930 U.S. servicemen and civilians still missing in action from World War II .
As of April 5,2018 , according to the U.S. Department of Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Accounting Office , there were still 72,934 U.S. servicemen and Civilians still unaccounted for from World War II.According to official US Department of Army and Department of Navy casualty records , submitted to Congress in 1946 and updated in 1953 , the combined possible total of missing service personnel worldwide is closer to approximately 6600 and probably considerably fewer .
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