missing in action

Examines the life of Vera Atkins, who recruited and trained hundreds of agents in the Special Operations Executive, Great Britain's secret organization that helped build and supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, and chronicles her efforts to discover what happened to missing agents in France after the war.

In the closing hours of the defense of Khe Sanh Combat Base, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, Tom Mahoney inexplicably walked away from his platoon, unarmed, and was shot to death by enemy soldiers hiding nearby. His fellow Marines made several desperate attempts to recover their well-liked comrade, but were finally forced to leave him behind--though never forgotten. Author Michael Archer (a high school friend who joined the Marines together with Tom) chronicles his exhaustive search for answers to his friend's mysterious stroll into oblivion. This quest eventually leads to an improbable series of connections: from Tom's childhood friends, to fellow Marines, past the frustration of numerous ineffective, often inept, attempts by the U.S. government to locate his remains and eventually back to that infamous battleground and the last remaining eyewitness to Tom Mahoney's death--one of those who killed him.

Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead.

Barbara Birchim recounts her quest for answers about her husband, a Special Forces officer who went missing in action in Vietnam in 1968, describing her trips to Southeast Asia, her interactions with the U.S. government and military, and her emotional torment over not knowing her husband's fate.

Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.

It is 1968, and thirteen-year-old Riley is feeling lost when her brother Mick goes missing in Vietnam. The boy from a nearby reservation she fell in love with is on his way to Vietnam, too, and she is carrying his child. Not knowing what else to do, Riley travels across the country and somehow gets overseas to Saigon, meeting a colorful cast of characters along the way, all scarred one way or another by the war.

Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.

In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing in the High Sierra found the mummified remains of a man in a World War II uniform entombed in the ice. The discovery started an investigation and the four-man crew on a routine navigation training flight in 1942, one hundred and fifty miles off-course from its reported destination, were found. The cause of the crash was bad weather, bad luck, and bad timing. And then in 2007, the second body of the flight crew was found in the glacier.

Explores the extraordinary, enduring commitment among U.S. soldiers to leave no one behind. On the morning of January 20, 1944, Major Marion "Ryan" McCown Jr., a Marine Corps pilot, took off on a dangerous mission against the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul. His plane went down that day and was lost in the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Fast forward sixty years later as Major George Eyster V found himself in the same sweltering, impenetrable rain forest searching for MIA's. That's not all he would find there.

Dedicated military forensics investigator Kel McKelvey is called upon to apply his exhaustive scrutiny in a case involving suspicious coroners and desperate criminals.