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Field Work (Excavation & Recovery Project)

Name	Picture	Unit	Recovery	Place	Finder	Official Identification	Field Memo
William Yawney		Army, 27th Inf, 105th Reg.	September, 2011	Saipan	Kuentai -Japan	November, 2013	Everyone on the site (including, Japanese officials, anthropologist, staff from HPO) claimed that he is Japanese, but the Secretary General of Kuentai-Japan, Usan Kurata, made an argument. 　 JPAC told them to send the remains to their Hawaii office by FedEx.
William Carneal		Army, 27th Inf, 105th Reg.	March, 2013	Saipan	Kuentai -Japan	April, 2014	After the initial report from the site, staff from JPAC came to Saipan 3 days later, and recovered the remains.
Unknown		?				Not known	Only the teeth and American artifacts were found, and the staff from JPAC team took them back to Hawaii with the remains of Carneal.
Richard Bean		Army, 27th Inf, 105th Reg.	July, 2013	Saipan	Kuentai -Japan	October, 2014	After the initial report from the site, staff from JPAC came to Saipan 4 days later, and recovered the remains.
Bernard Gavrin		Army, 27th Inf, 105th Reg.	August, 2013	Saipan	Kuentai -Japan	November, 2014	After the initial report from the site, staff from JPAC came to Saipan a week later. 　 The remains were found only 1.5 meters away from the Bean's burial.
Seymour Drovis		Army, 27th Inf, 105th Reg.				September, 2018	Only the pieces of bones and American artifacts were found, and the staff from JPAC team took them back to Hawaii with the remains of Gavrin. 　 This was also only 5m away from the Bean's burial.
Unknown		Marine	November, 2015	Saipan	KUENTAI-USA	Not known	John Byrd, DPAA Lab Director, came to Saipan to receive the bones from the local agency, HPO, but KUENTAI-USA was not notified anything about the receipt of the remains.
Several sets, all unknown		?	Found but told to rebury on Nov, 2015	Saipan	KUENTAI-USA	Still buried in the field in Saipan	Several sets of human remains were found along with the American artifacts. 　 Because the sites are located on the extended line of the avobe US soldiers, and artifacts were all of America, the report was made to DPAA (by email to John Byrd) from the site. 　 As of today, DPAA has not replied and responded to the report (for a detail, please read this story). Japanese group accuses US of abandoning World War II remains on Saipan

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Document Analysis for "Unknowns" (*originally found and later shared by WFI Research Group)

Name	Picture	Unit	Submit to JPAC	Originally Buried at	Certificate 　 from Dentists	Official Identification	Reason to become MIA
Richard Murphy		USMCR, Staff Sgt, 2nd Bn, 6th Marine	November, 2014	Manila, Philippines	Submitted to JPAC	August, 2018	He died on D-day of the Battle of Saipan. 　 The body was not found.
Robert George Thompson		USMC, PFC, Co C, 1st B, 24th Marine	January, 2015	Manila, Philippines	Submitted to JPAC	Pending	There is no details on his death.
Oscar Eli Koskela		USMCR 1st Bn, 29th Marine	January, 2015	Manila, Philippines	Submitted to JPAC	June, 2017	He was taken aboard for medical treatment and died shortly afterwards. 　 His remains were transferred to the Shore Party Mecial Offices, Saipan, for interment, but became MIA.
Lester Schade		USMC, Cap, 3rd Bn, 4th Marine	April, 2015	Punchbowl, Hawaii	Submitted to JPAC	August, 2018	A ship to transfer the POWs from the Philippines to Japan was sunk during the transportation, and he became MIA.

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