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Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History

Australasia: Commercial Development / Edited by George Philip, Denoyer-Geppert Company

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

South Pacific Ocean : Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands

Oral History Interview with Wilmer A. Moreau, April 18, 2003

Four soldiers sitting around a table, Bougainville, 1940s

The Discovery of Australia / compiled and drawn by James Emery ; published by H.E.C. Robinson Pty. Limited

Australia and New Zealand / American Map Company, Inc

List of Company I, 164th Infantry, soldiers who were killed in action, 1940s

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families