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unusual facts about Missing In Action



Doreen Cooper

Wright joined the Auxiliary Air Force in 1939 to serve in World War II and was declared missing in action in 1940.

Nargaroth

While interviewed by "Magacinum ab ovo", Wagner said he sees Nazism as a mental restriction and that he had no Fascist ideas because he was a supporter of the Kriegsgräberfürsorge, a German organization caring for graves of soldiers similar to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the MIA International.

Winter in Madrid

In a twist of fate, Sandy Forsyth's girlfriend Barbara Clare is a former lover of another school friend of Brett's, Bernie Piper, a communist member of the International Brigades MIA since the Battle of Jarama in 1937.


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An Lộc

An Lộc is mentioned in the epilogue of American Graffiti, which states that "Terry 'Toad' Fields was reported missing in action near An Lộc in December 1965." This is later expanded upon in the sequel, More American Graffiti.

Helmut Steinbrecher

Captain Drake was just 20 years old, from Goodwick in Pembrokeshire, and himself was reported missing in action, presumed killed, just two months later on 29th September 1918.

Holden Caulfield

"This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" (Esquire, 1945) reveals that Holden went missing in action during the war.

Khurshid Anwar Jilani

His legacy is survived by writers, military officers and entrepreneurs; son, Ahmed Javed Jilani, former president Lahore High Court Bar, son, Col(rtd) Ahmad Taufiq Jilani, Punjab Regiment (Lahore), daughter, Farzana Agha Jilani (Islamabad), son, Tauqir Jilani, (founder of VideoShack & Jilani Motoronics Co) in California, and son, Major Tahir Mahmood Jilani, a military pilot flying a Bird Dog L-19, went missing in action in 1970 over river Indus.

Resistance: Retribution

Grayson leads a Maquis force into the heart of Russia to discover the source of the Chimera invasion, but Grayson goes Missing in action during the battle to liberate Warsaw, though rumors spread of a British soldier in Russia that has become known as the "Cloven Killer".

Sam Templeton

He is well known for his actions with the 39th Battalion as the commander of 'B' Company during the First Battle of Kokoda and went missing in action on the 26 July 1942 near the village of Oivi.

U.S.–Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs

The Commission, holds a formal Plenary to discuss a spectrum of issues that involve Prisoners of War and Missing in Action such as; archival access and research, visitation to former Soviet detention facilities and camps, reported gravesites, loss incident reports, shoot-downs, archival reports, Soviet Bloc nation intelligence and reports, information passed on to the Commission and to establish the direction the USRJC and its Working Groups will take.