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Does the Us Have Any Pows?

Marcus Vance • Oct 7, 2026 • 6 min read

Does the Us Have Any Pows?

According to the Pentagon's Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, there are currently 83,204 unaccounted for U.S. personnel, including 73,547 from World War II, 7,883 from the Korean War, 126 from the Cold War, 1,642 from the Vietnam War, and six from Iraq and other recent conflicts, including three Defense ...

Are there still US POWs?

As of 2015, more than 1,600 of those were still “unaccounted-for.” The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) of the U.S. Department of Defense lists 687 U.S. POWs as having returned alive from the Vietnam War.

Are there still POWs in Vietnam 2021?

MISSING AND UNACCOUNTED-FOR FROM THE VIETNAM WAR: The number missing (POW/MIA) and unaccounted-for (KIA/BNR) from the Vietnam War is still 1,584. ... Charvet, 26, killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for March 1, 2021.

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