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American POW/MIA cases in past conflicts

Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

American POW and MIA cases NORTH AMERICA:

  • WORLD WAR II: 2,390

American POW and MIA cases SOUTH AMERICA:

  • WORLD WAR II: 646

American POW and MIA cases EUROPE:

  • WORLD WAR II: 20,914
  • COLD WAR: 8

American POW and MIA cases MIDDLE EAST:

  • WORLD WAR II: 16
  • GULF WAR: 5

American POW and MIA cases AFRICA:

  • WORLD WAR II: 984
  • EL DORADO CANYON: 1

American POW and MIA cases INDO PACIFIC:

  • WORLD WAR II: 47,089
  • COLD WAR: 108
  • KOREAN WAR: 6,500
  • VIETNAM WAR:1,584

More than 81,600 Americans are still missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars/other conflicts. Out of that number, 75% of those losses are located in the Indo-Pacific, and more than 41,000 of the missing are presumed lost at sea.