Gandhinagar-based National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) will join a team of the Department of Defense, United States of America, to recover and identify the remains of over 400 of its missing personnel that are believed to be in India since World War II. According to NFSU officials, the US Department of Defense (DOD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with NFSU on May 27 via video-conferencing. As per the MoU, the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) under the DOD will come to India to trace, recover and identify the missing personnel of US Army of World War II in India. Speaking to The Indian Express, Dr Gargi Jani, project manager, NFSU, said, “The DPAA deals with tracing and accounting of missing US army personnel in different wars such as World War I, World War II, Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War among others. In that regard, the DOD has signed an MOU with the NFSU to provide the fullest possible accounting for missing personnel to their families and US nation.

Source: Indian Express May 30, 2021 20:03 UTC