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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

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

MCPO Charles Cartwright holds the urn containing the remains of CDR Harold Schwartz during burial at sea services aboard the tank landing ship USS RACINE (LST-1191), anchored off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Schwartz served as a doctor assigned to the Paratroop Battalion, 1ST Marine Division and took part in combat operations on Guadalcanal, the Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands and Okinawa during World War II

World War II (WWII) era photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Jack Pittman, Jr, taken at Russell Island, July 4, 1943 as he sits in the cockpit of a USMC F4U"CORSAIR"aircraft. TSGT Pittman is an Ace Pilot credited with 7 kills. His hometown is Amarillo, Texas

Native children look on at a construction site at Port Vila as members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 62 help repair damage caused by Cyclone Uma

World War II (WWII) area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) Wilbur J. Thomas, taken at Guadalcanal, July 18, 1943. 1LT Thomas is an ace pilot and is credited with 18 kills. His home is 211 West First Street, El Dorado, Kansas

World War II (WWII) area photo of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) Eugene Dillow, Russell Islands, July 4, 1943

World War II (WWII) area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) John L. Morgan, Jr, taken at Guadalcanal, July 18, 1943. 1LT Morgan is an ace pilot and is credited with 8 kills. His hometown is Arlington, Texas

World War II (WWII) area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) Milton N. Vedder, taken at Guadalcanal, July 15, 1943. 1LT Thomas is an ace pilot and is credited with 6 kills. His hometown is Los Angeles, California

World War II (WWII) area photo of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) P.C. Delong, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, November 24th 1943

U.S. Navy Sailors aboard a Landing Craft Vehicle personnel boat is lowered over the side of the Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) during operations in the Gulf of Aden on Sept. 6, 2006. SAIPAN is currently underway conducting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN McKinley Cartwright) (Released)

Port bow view of the US Navy (USN) TARAWA CLASS: Amphibious Assault Ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) underway off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA)