US mission in India to search for missing Americans from WW II

A specialised identification and recovery teams from the US have arrived here in search of nearly 400 Americans who remain unaccounted for from the World War II, in Arunachal Pradesh.
This will be the first recovery mission conducted by the Defense Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) in Arunachal Pradesh since December 2009.
The majority of the nearly 400 missing Americans are believed to be located in this area, since the main air resupply route from India to China during the World War II flew over the Himalayas on a route which came to be known as "The Hump", a statement by the American Embassy here said.

DPAA missions are therefore important to help them fulfill their mission of fully accounting for the American servicemen still missing from previous conflicts, and living up to their motto of "Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise".
The recovery of the remains of missing US service members is a stand-alone humanitarian mission, underscoring the Department of Defense's commitment to the fullest possible accounting for US servicemen from the nation's past conflicts, the statement said.
Falling directly under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, DPAA continues its search for the approximately 400 Americans still missing in India and the more than 83,000 Americans still missing from past conflicts worldwide.