Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel move a case containing possible remains of unidentified service members from the Battle of Tarawa during an honorable carry at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 20, 2018. The contents of the case will be examined by forensic anthropologists and forensic odontologists at DPAA’s skeletal identification laboratory. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and to the nation.

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