WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — The remains of an unknown soldier were exhumed from a Wausau cemetery last week. The man died by suicide in Marathon County in 1930, leaving behind a note that said he served in World War I but left no additional information. Despite efforts to identify him, his identity was never discovered, and he was later buried with full military honors with a headstone reading “Unknown Soldier.”
Badgers add POW/MIA Tribute to Camp Randall Stadium
MADISON, Wis. – Camp Randall Stadium’s military connection has deep roots. A former Union Army training camp during the Civil War, more than 70,000 troops trained on the Camp Randall grounds. Beginning with the 2024 season, that military connection will be strengthened with the introduction of a Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Chair of Honor.
UW-Madison team digs through records and dirt to find MIA soldiers
Staff Sgt. Henry Stevens was among the crew returning from a bombing raid on Dec. 23, 1944, when their plane was shot over Germany.
Photo: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
MIA Recovery Archaeologist to Present at Museum Speaker Series
Dr. Brett Hoffman, a senior member of the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project, will share the history of the project and dive into work accomplished so far, as well as future developments, in his presentation at the EAA Aviation Museum on Thursday, January 18, at 7 p.m., kicking off the 2024 lineup of the Aviation Adventure Speaker Series.
University of Wisconsin group locates remains of missing World War II Sergeant
MADISON, Wis. — Bringing missing heroes home is the mission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project (UW MIA RIP).
The group is comprised of a team of students, professors and many others who volunteer their time to travel to sites around the globe to find and return the remains of soldiers lost in war.
Spectrum News interviewed the group in 2022 before they returned to Belgium to dig up a World War II crash site. Then, featured them again while they were working in Belgium. Now, two years later, we are sharing their story of success.
How a UW-Madison project uses science, history to bring MIA soldiers back home
There are about 1,500 Wisconsin service members who are missing in action after WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War. We talk with a member of a team of scientists, historians and doctors who are trying to locate and recover their remains. (Larry Meiller Show)
Photo Credit: Michael Dwyer/AP Photo
UWL Alumnus and Archaeologist Gregg Jamison discusses his work recovering MIA soldiers from WWII
Gregg Jamison, UWL alumnus and lead archaeologist of the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project (UW MIA RIP), presented his discoveries on Tuesday, March 7 in Centennial Hall.
Photo retrieved from uwlax.edu
Buried on the Battlefield: UW team helps identify MIA service members from WWII & beyond
There are thousands of unnamed American service members who left it all on the battlefield, never returning home. Now, the lives of those killed are being uncovered with the help of a UW professor.
Photo by: TMJ4 News
Vaneesa Cook was the lead historian for the UW project. She told WUWM’s Chuck Quirmbach that some of the cases awaiting resolution are from Korea, Vietnam and later conflicts, but the overwhelming majority date back to World War Two.
New bill would help bring back remains of MIA Wisconsin soldiers | WFRV
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – September 17, 2021 – A new bill proposed for passage in WI aims to bring closure to families of soldiers missing in action.
Making a Difference: UW volunteers help locate and bring remains of America’s missing heroes home
Finding answers for families decades later
Wisconsin NBC15, Veteran’s Day 2020
The UW MIA RIP on WPR’s “University of the Air” hosted by Norman Gililand
The UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project was founded in 2015, two years after helping identify the remains of a U.S. service member mistakenly buried as a German soldier. Since then, UW has forged a unique partnership with the Department of Defense that harnesses the cutting edge technology and knowledge of the Madison campus — and now other academic partners — to find and identify America’s MIAs. Team members Charles Konsitzke (founder and team lead) and Samantha Zinnen (historical research lead) are interviewed by WPR’s “University of the Air” host Norman Gililand. Aired Sunday, March 15th, 2020.
A solemn recovery missionDr. Gregg Jamison of UW-Milwaukee at Waukesha speaks in reverent tones about how his research contributes to the poignant mission.
The Legacy of the 5307th Merrill’s Marauders: Wisconsin MIAs in Burma
Written by Dr. Vaneesa Cook, DPAA historian in residence for the UW MIA RIP.
Original post by Chris Barncard.
Student’s MBA Education Helps MIA Project See Patterns Among the Missing
Written by Meghan Chua. Posted on November 7th, 2019.
(MADISON) – The University of Wisconsin is helping our nation deliver on its promise to honor brave Americans who paid the ultimate sacrifice by bringing closure to their families. Of the more than 72,000 U.S. service members still unaccounted for from World War Two, the Defense Department says that about 30,000 are possibly recoverable.
On CBS 58 Sunday Morning, Victor Jacobo met UW Anthropology professor Gregg Jamison and members of a team focused on the recovery and identification of U.S. forces still unaccounted for.
UW research ‘angels’ help find and identify American MIAs
People who pulled on American uniforms, raised their right hand to support and defend the Constitution before dying in foreign lands and waters far from their homes, and worried families who never got the chance to bury their loved ones. But the missing in action have not been forgotten. Not by a nation that sent them to war and not by a dedicated group of volunteers and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bill to help bring Wisconsin MIA service members home introduced
A bill to help bring Missing-in-Action service members back home has been introduced in Madison. “We send them out into battle, we need to do everything we can to make sure that they come home,” said State Sen. Roger Roth, R-Appleton.
Phillips native working with UW to bring home fallen soldiers
Tristan Krause, a 2014 graduate of Phillips High School, is one of a handful of Wisconsinites working to bring those fallen service members home. In 2016, the University of Wisconsin became the first outside organization to partner with DPAA — opening the doorway for a series of strategic partnerships with other research organizations who can aid in the work to find and recover the remains of American service members who were reported missing.
New bill aims to find and identify Wisconsin soldiers missing in action
The University of Wisconsin System was the first academic group to partner with the Department of Defense (DOD) to help find and identify those service members back around 2013. The UW’s team has successfully located three MIA service members so far.
AIRMAN FROM WORLD WAR II ACCOUNTED FOR
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B. Stone, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 20, 2019. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) thanked the University of Wisconsin for assistance in the recovery.