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Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. The United States Department of Defense , for example, says that those declared KIA did not need to have fired their weapons, but only to have ...
- Missing in action - Wikipedia
Missing in action ( MIA) is a casualty classification...
- Category:Military personnel killed in action - Wikipedia
This is a list of notable individuals who have been killed...
- Wounded in action - Wikipedia
Wounded in action. Wounded in action ( WIA) describes...
- Killed in action - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Killed in action ( KIA) is a military term. It is used to...
- Missing in action - Wikipedia
L'espressione morto in combattimento (in inglese killed in action - KIA) indica una classificazione delle vittime generalmente utilizzata dai militari per descrivere la morte del proprio personale per mano di forze nemiche od ostili al momento dell'azione.
- Before The 20th Century
- World War I
- World War II
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Cold War
- Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
- Iran–Iraq War
- Gulf War
- Other Conflicts
The numerous wars which have occurred over the centuries have created many MIAs. The list is long and includes most battles which have ever been fought by any nation. The usual problems of identification caused by rapid decomposition were exacerbated by the fact that it was common practice to loot the remains of the dead for any valuables e.g. pers...
The phenomenon of MIAs became particularly notable during World War I, where the mechanized nature of modern warfare meant that a single battle could cause astounding numbers of casualties. For example, in 1916 over 300,000 Allied and German combatants were killed in the Battle of the Somme. A total of 19,240 British and Commonwealth combatants wer...
There are many missing combatants and other persons in service from World War II.In the United States Armed Forces, 78,750 personnel missing in action had been reported by the end of the war, representing over 19 percent of the total of 405,399 killed during the conflict. As with MIAs from the First World War, it is a routine occurrence for the rem...
Korean War US MIAs repatriation
The US Department of Defense DPAA gives dates for the Korean War from June 27, 1950, to January 31, 1955. Between June and October 1950, an estimated 700 civilian and US military POWs had been captured by the North Koreans. By August 1953 only 262 were still alive; one of the survivors was Private First Class Wayne A. "Johnnie" Johnson, who secretly documented the deaths of 496 US military and Korean/European civilian POWs. Johnson would later be awarded the Silver Starmedal for valor in 1996...
Arrowhead Hill MIA
Remains of nine sets of remains of Korean War MIA servicemen have also been discovered at Arrowhead Hill, aka Hill 281 Battle of White Horse, which is located in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, during minesweeping operations between October and November 2018.Arrowhead Hill had previously been selected for both Koreas to jointly conduct a pilot remains recovery project.
Australians MIA in Korea
A number of Australian combatants and POWs have also never been recovered from Korea.Of 340 Australian servicemen killed in the Korean War, 43 are listed as MIA.
Following the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, 591 U.S. prisoners of war were returned during Operation Homecoming. The U.S. listed about 1,350 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action and roughly 1,200 Americans reported killed in action and body not recovered. By the early 1990s, this had been reduced to a total of 2,255 unaccounted for fro...
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, as of May 24, 2023, there were still 126 U.S. servicemen unaccounted for from the Cold War. 1. April 8, 1950, a U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer, (Bureau Number : 59645), flying out of Wiesbaden, Germany, was shot down by Soviet fighters over the Baltic Sea. The entire crew of 10 remains unaccounted for...
In the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, two companies of the Indian Army's 15th Punjab (formerly First Patiala) were attacked by four brigades of the Pakistan Army on 3 December 1971 at 1835 hours. Nearly 4,000 Pakistani men attacked the Indian side with 15 tanks and heavy artillery support. The Indian commanders included Major Waraich, Major Singh's and...
The Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988 left tens of thousands of Iranian and Iraqi combatants and prisoners of war still unaccounted for. Some counts include civilians who disappeared during the conflict. One estimate is that more than 52,000 Iraqis went missing in the war.Officially, the government of Iran lists 8,000 as missing. Following up on these cas...
According to the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, 47 Americans were listed as POW/MIAs at some point during Operation Desert Storm. At the conclusion of the Gulf War of 1991, U.S. forces resolved all but one of those cases : 21 Prisoners of War were repatriated, 23 bodies were recovered and 2 bodies were lost over the Gulf and ther...
As of May 24, 2023, according to the US Department of Defense, the total of unaccounted for from the category of the Iraqi Theater and other conflicts is at 6. This includes Captain Paul F. Lorence (Operation El Dorado Canyon - 1986), Lt. Cmdr. Barry T. Cooke & Lt. Robert J. Dwyer (Operation Desert Storm - 1991) and civilian contractors Kirk von Ac...
Killed in action ( KIA) is a military term. It is used to describe a member of the military who was killed during a battle. On Wikipedia articles about battles, leaders who were killed in action have this symbol (†) next to their name.
This is a list of notable individuals who have been killed in action. Those who died of wounds within a short period can also be listed as killed in action.
Wounded in action. Wounded in action ( WIA) describes combatants who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during wartime, but have not been killed. Typically, it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight. [1]
People killed in action (KIA), a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. KIAs include those killed by friendly fire in the midst of combat, but not from incidents such as accidental vehicle crashes, murder or ...
