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Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Chaplain Accounted For From Korean War (Kapaun, E.)
May 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release on May 14, 2021:

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil J. Kapaun, of Pilsen, Kansas, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for March 2, 2021.

After serving in World War II, Kapaun returned to active duty in the U.S. Army and served in the Korean War with the 8th . . .

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