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Bataan Death March Expedition alone could ID hundreds of MIAs   --READ STORIES


Pictured from top left to bottom right: USMC Capt. Kevin Sweeney; USN Capt. Taylor Skardon; USN Admiral Greg Nosal; * USMC Major General Stash Conant; Kenneth Moore; Admiral Tim Keating; * USMC General Jim Mattis; Mrs. Keating; USN Capt. Jim Hickerson (former PoW).


 


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"I'm amazed at the information you continue to uncover and the entrepreneurial spirit that's part of your team's commitment. Good hunting, Ken. I admire what you and your people are doing."
General James Mattis

About Moore's Marauders...

Moore's Marauders is a non-profit organization that doesn't receive any government funding. We rely solely on your contributions to help us locate the 35,000 WWII MIAs the U.S. government maintains are still recoverable.

You can help us bring home the thousands who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
Donate today.


Who Are The Marauders?

Moore's Marauders has evolved into a global organization comprising of doctors, scholars, retired military men, scientists, historians, pilots, intelligence officers, researchers, special forces operatives, and aviation archeologists, just to name a few.

Unique In All The World...

 

The Beacon Newsletter

Vol. 1, Issue 3 - June 10th features the following:
Inside Japan - Inside the Republic of China - Update on Operation Mukden - Operation Ms. Lu (the search for P-51 pilot, Lt. Ernest W. Garner) - Lushun’s Secret Cemetery.

Prisoners of War/Missing In Action (POW-MIA)

 

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Cold War

Viet Nam War

Total POW/MIA

7,323

194,879

12,654

124

2596

POWs Returned

3,973

116,129

4,439

0

591

Still Missing and Unaccounted For

3,350

78,750

8,215

124

2,005

Statistics from the Defense Department's (DoD's) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)

More Facts on WWII


Kenneth Moore, Founder /CEO, Moore's Marauders

MISSING IN ACTION (MIA):

It’s a Statement, Not an Answer

THE FACTS OF THE UNTOLD STORY

 

Seventy-eight thousand Americans who served overseas in our nation's armed forces from 1941-1945, never came home.  They were never heard from nor seen again.  In the enormity of WWII, the facts surrounding their deaths and disappearances were either lost, discarded, or ignored.  To categorize these fallen, we as a nation simply call them, "MIA's."

 

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Operation Mukden

Staff Sgt. William Lynch still unaccounted for.   View Slideshow...

Caught in the clutches of unimaginable horror with his very flesh stripped from his bones, time and time again he spat in the eye of his sadistic captors saying " I will not surrender." As great as any hero from the pages of history, he was an American, a young man from Boston, he was...a United States Marine! His name, William Joseph Lynch. Of the more than 1,500 U.S.slave laborers held by Imperial Japanese forces in China's Mukden prison during World War Two, only one escaped who remains to this day, unaccounted for ... Staff Sergeant William Joseph Lynch. That however, with your help, may soon change.



Marauder Team #7, our all-volunteer team of world renowned, scientists must raise $25k for the excavation and analysis of the site that all evidence gathered to date suggests, holds the remains of SSgt. Lynch. The cooperation of the local Chinese government has been secured. Through a journey virtually as epic as Lynch's own, Marauder genealogists have located SSgt Lynch's next of kin. Two of his nieces are now standing by ready to provide DNA samples.

We've done all we can. It now comes down to you! Will you help? Your one time, $10 donation will aid in the telling of this Marine's remarkable quest for freedom while bringing closure to his family.

(Funds raised beyond the stated objective for "Operation Mukden" go directly to the Marauder's general fund recognizing that regardless of one's branch of service, all who fought and died for the freedom every American holds so dear, must be located and ultimately returned to their families. Ninety-one percent of all funds raised go directly to the missions. The Marauders have 30 additional missions fully researched and ready to execute with the objective of locating a minimum of 500 American MIAs over the next 3 years).

Of all branches of the military, the Marines together with members of the U.S. Navy, both active and retired, are the Marauders' most steadfast allies.

Kenneth James Moore
Founder/CEO
Moore's Marauders, MIA Specialists



Recommended reading -- Leave No Man Behind

Leave No Man Behind

Leave No Man Behind

by authors Bill Bell and Jay Veith

"Leave No Man Behind" is the powerful story of Garnett "Bill" Bell's quest, at great personal cost, to find and bring home the POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the Vietnamese Communists and his fluency in various regional dialects, he penetrated the system the Communists had created to exploit American POWs for diplomatic concessions, or their remains and personnal effects for financial rewards.

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Submerged B29 Superfortress Discovered in Marianas.

Serial Numbers Verified.

Crew Families Notified.

Eyewitness Recalls 9 "Life of Riley" Airmen Survived Emergency Landing.

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Crew of "The Life of Riley:" Left to Right (Top Row): Lt. W.G. Weber, Lt. Colonel J.B. Riley, Lt. J.G. Kelly, Capt. W.W. Homer, Lt. Worthington, (Bottom Row): Cpl. English, Sgt. W.R. Bass, Cpl. Dannaher, PFC. Doyle, Sgt. Truelove, Cpl. Ellis



Lt. Roy Bechtol: WWII MIA since June 23rd, 1944


Remains of Naval Aviator Lt. Roy Bechtol Found

 

Hellcat and fallen pilot discovered on Pagan Island 61 years after declared MIA .

 

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Marauders erect cross upon discovering Bechtol's remains. His "High Hatter" squadron was based on the U.S.S. Yorktown.



 

WWII vintage Japaneses type JE Anti-boat mines, like this one, are highly unstable and can be detonated with the slightest movement.

Weekend Warriors BEWARE:

Even today, thousands of WWII vintage munitions remain "deadly"

Still functional "booby traps," hidden landmines and unexploded shell casings are among the many surprises that the Marauders contend with.

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Bataan Death March Survivors Still Going Strong...

Four survivors (200th Field Artillery Regiment) provide Marauders with invaluable leads at September '06 reunion.

"New" Bataan Recon Video

From left to right: Marauder Roger Leonard, followed by survivors: Virgil Aimes, Leo Padilla, William Overmier, Ernest Montoya, followed by Marauder founder Ken Moore (far right) 


About Moore's Marauders...

Moore's Marauders is a non-profit organization that receives no government funding. We rely solely on your contributions to help us locate the 35,000 WWII MIAs as well as the many Korean and Viet Nam War era MIAs that the U.S. government maintains are still recoverable.

You can help us bring home the thousands who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Donate today.


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