{"id":42941,"date":"2021-10-28T21:12:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/10\/28\/documentary-chronicles-efforts-to-repatriate-american-service-members-missing-since-wwii\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:58:22","slug":"documentary-chronicles-efforts-to-repatriate-american-service-members-missing-since-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2021\/10\/28\/documentary-chronicles-efforts-to-repatriate-american-service-members-missing-since-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary chronicles efforts to repatriate American service members missing since WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Technological developments in recent decades have continued to galvanize oceanic research teams into scouring unfathomable distances and depths in missions aimed at locating World War II wreckages once believed to be lost to history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such investigative outfit is Project Recover<\/a>, a small team comprising oceanographers, archaeologists, historians, and military veterans who, since its inception in 1993, have searched the Earth\u2019s farthest-flung corners in an endeavor to repatriate the remains of Americans still missing in action 75 years after the war concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it began as a small-time operation by founder Dr. Pat Scannon<\/a>, Project Recover has evolved into an effort backed by the University of California San Diego\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware. In nearly three decades of operation, its teams have completed more than 60 missions in over 20 countries and territories, located more than 50 downed aircraft, and found more than 180 Americans once missing in action. Of those, 14 have been repatriated.<\/p>\n\n\n\t