Note ABMC record not Updated-remains ID In 2011!
ABMC record:
Stephen L. Pascal
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # O-773791
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
Entered the Service from: California
Died: 8-Apr-46
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Luxembourg American Cemetery
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Awards: Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Nov. 28, 2011
AIRMAN MISSING FROM WWII IDENTIFIED
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today
that the remains of a U.S. serviceman from World War II have been identified and are being
returned to the family for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Stephen L. Pascal, 20, of Hollywood, Calif., will be buried on Nov. 30, in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On April 7, 1945, Pascal was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined Pascal's aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day,1st Lt. Newell F. Mills Jr., and his wingman, went missing in their P-51D aircraft.
In 1947, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains belonged to be Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village, when it went missing, than Pascal's. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium.
In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—
Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his
remains.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 remain unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing
Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.
ABMC record:
Stephen L. Pascal
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # O-773791
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
Entered the Service from: California
Died: 8-Apr-46
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Luxembourg American Cemetery
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Awards: Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Nov. 28, 2011
AIRMAN MISSING FROM WWII IDENTIFIED
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today
that the remains of a U.S. serviceman from World War II have been identified and are being
returned to the family for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Stephen L. Pascal, 20, of Hollywood, Calif., will be buried on Nov. 30, in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On April 7, 1945, Pascal was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined Pascal's aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day,1st Lt. Newell F. Mills Jr., and his wingman, went missing in their P-51D aircraft.
In 1947, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains belonged to be Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village, when it went missing, than Pascal's. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium.
In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—
Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his
remains.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 remain unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing
Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.
Note ABMC record not Updated-remains ID In 2011!
ABMC record:
Stephen L. Pascal
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # O-773791
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
Entered the Service from: California
Died: 8-Apr-46
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Luxembourg American Cemetery
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Awards: Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Nov. 28, 2011
AIRMAN MISSING FROM WWII IDENTIFIED
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today
that the remains of a U.S. serviceman from World War II have been identified and are being
returned to the family for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Stephen L. Pascal, 20, of Hollywood, Calif., will be buried on Nov. 30, in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On April 7, 1945, Pascal was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined Pascal's aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day,1st Lt. Newell F. Mills Jr., and his wingman, went missing in their P-51D aircraft.
In 1947, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains belonged to be Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village, when it went missing, than Pascal's. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium.
In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—
Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his
remains.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 remain unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing
Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.
ABMC record:
Stephen L. Pascal
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # O-773791
30th Photographic Squadron, 67th Reconnaissance Group
Entered the Service from: California
Died: 8-Apr-46
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Luxembourg American Cemetery
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Awards: Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Nov. 28, 2011
AIRMAN MISSING FROM WWII IDENTIFIED
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today
that the remains of a U.S. serviceman from World War II have been identified and are being
returned to the family for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Stephen L. Pascal, 20, of Hollywood, Calif., will be buried on Nov. 30, in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On April 7, 1945, Pascal was flying a photo reconnaissance mission between Gottingen and Alfeld, Germany, when his P-38 Lightning aircraft, fitted for reconnaissance, went missing. An investigation conducted after the war determined Pascal's aircraft exploded over the town of Gottingen. Nearby, on the same day,1st Lt. Newell F. Mills Jr., and his wingman, went missing in their P-51D aircraft.
In 1947, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) exhumed remains of an American pilot, buried by local residents, from a village cemetery in Varrigsen, Germany. The circumstantial evidence led AGRS to believe the remains belonged to be Mills since his aircraft was closer to that village, when it went missing, than Pascal's. The remains were buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery near Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium.
In 2004, a German civilian began excavating the crash site associated with the airman buried in Varrigsen. Aircraft parts recovered from the location were from a P-38 Lightning—
Pascal's aircraft—not the P-51D flown by Mills. In 2007, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, P-38 aircraft parts and military equipment. In 2008, JPAC exhumed the remains thought to be Mills and examined them with the remains recovered in 2007. It was determined that the remains were all Pascal's.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used mitochondrial DNA—which matched that of Pascal's cousin—in the identification of his
remains.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 remain unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing
Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.
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