How many American MIA are there?

How many American MIA are there?

Today, more than 72,000 Americans remain unaccounted for from WWII.

How many Americans are listed as MIA in Vietnam?

Current Status of Unaccounted-for Americans Lost in the Vietnam War

	Vietnam	Total
Original Missing	1,973	2,646
Repatriated and Identified	729	1,062[1]
Remaining Missing	1,244	1,584

Are there still American POWs?

As of 2015, more than 1,600 of those were still “unaccounted-for.” The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) of the U.S. Department of Defense lists 687 U.S. POWs as having returned alive from the Vietnam War. North Vietnam acknowledged that 55 American servicemen and 7 civilians died in captivity.

Do POWS pay taxes?

Income Tax: Public Law provides that the entire amount of compensation of MIA personnel is tax deferred until they are repatriated or determined to be deceased.

Are there any POWs right now?

According to the Pentagon's Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, there are currently 83,204 unaccounted for U.S. personnel, including 73,547 from World War II, 7,883 from the Korean War, 126 from the Cold War, 1,642 from the Vietnam War, and six from Iraq and other recent conflicts, including three Defense ...

How many American MIAs are still missing in action?

• In the wake of the Vietnam War, families of American MIAs began organizing to demand an accounting. The hunt continues. As of May 2020, 1,587 American service members were still missing in Southeast Asia.

Are there still MIAs from the Vietnam War?

• This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By August 2017, 1604 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1026 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as no further pursuit and 90 as deferred.

Why are there so many MIAs in Southeast Asia?

• For years, recovery efforts in Southeast Asia were hampered by lack of resources, governments wary of letting Americans back in and locals who remember the conflict all too well, says Sompatana “Tommy” Phisayavong, a research analyst at the Department of Defense who works with teams recovering remains from the C.I.A.’s “Secret War” in Laos.

How many POW's and Mia's were there in the Civil War?

• Civil War, Union: POW and MIA: 194,743. Civil War, Confederacy: POW and MIA: 214,865 Spanish-American War: POW: 8, MIA: 72. World War I: POW and MIA: 7,470. World War II: POW: 124,079; MIA: 30,314