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This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) pursues missing servicemembers and unresolved casualties from past conflicts. Agency efforts have shown a clear need for, and benefit of, an interdisciplinary approach throughout all aspects of case progression, beginning with historical research...
Recent Aircraft And Carriers Discovered By R/V Petrel (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An overview of aircraft carriers discovered by R/V Petrel in 2018 and 2019. These discoveries include the USS Lexington, USS Wasp, USS Hornet and wrecked aircraft associated with each. These historic WW2 carriers were discovered at depths ranging from 4,000 to greater than 5,500 meters in the Pacific Ocean.