Tag: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

• USNS Salvor Leads Historic Underwater Recovery Mission in Subic Bay

  

  The USNS Salvor is reportedly working with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on an ongoing mission that began February 15 to locate the remains of around 250 American prisoners of war believed trapped in the Japanese hell ship Oryoku Maru, which sank in Subic Bay in 1944. The underwater excavation—considered one of the largest…

  pahayaganzambales

  April 2, 2026

  News

  Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Japanese hell ship, Oryoku Maru, subic bay, Subic Bay Freeport, USNS Salvor, zambales

• Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Conducts Major Underwater Recovery Mission in Subic Bay

  

  SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has launched one of its largest and most complex underwater recovery missions to account for Americans associated with the sinking of the Oryoku Maru, a Japanese prisoner-of-war transport ship destroyed in Subic Bay during World War II. The multi-year mission led by DPAA in partnership…

  pahayaganzambales

  March 3, 2026

  military, News

  Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Oryoku Maru, subic bay, underwater recovery missions