Michael Sakar, Chief of the Sakar clan, speaks to families as members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery team visited the village in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Aug. 28, 2022. DPAA personnel arrived to conduct an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for personnel to their families and our nation.

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