claim: "almost 88,000 united states service members are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to world war ii."
author: jack conners
evidence_1: of the 16 million americans who served in wwii, more than 400000 died during  ... at the end of the war, there were approximately 79000 americans unaccounted  for. ... "the return of the world war ii dead program," to locate aircraft crash sites , ... identifying the remains of wwii service members fell largely to the u.s. army ...
evidence_2: may 28, 2012 ... politifact new jersey has analyzed claims on veterans and missing service  members from past wars. ... that "almost 88,000 united states service members  are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to world war ii."
evidence_3: jul 16, 2011 ... by jack conners. almost 88,000 united states service members are still missing  and unaccounted for, dating back to world war ii.
evidence_4: sep 29, 2013 ... a new jersey state lawmaker said in 2011 that nearly "88000 ... ... service  members are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to world war ii." ...  even service members missing from world war ii can be identified by ...
evidence_5: in this article, find out about the us effort that spends $100 million each year to  find, ... nearly 600 military and civilian personnel work full-time on the pow/mia  effort. ... total of u.s. service personnel from world war ii to the present listed  either as "missing in action" ... dpmo's first priority is to bring back live american  pows.