vt. 杀死；扼杀；使终止；抵消
n. 杀戮；屠杀
adj. 致命的；致死的
n. (Kill)人名；(德)基尔
--王阳明整个都听外籍店东的，足球(Football Manager)将会被 杀死 ( Kill )。“这个放肆的主意会(Sense)是足球衰亡的下手，会让完全支撑低级别球队的儿童和球迷们抱负落空。
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joint practice
light service
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由于气忿的德国人曾经宣称，要将那个起码在本届世界杯上展望百分百的家伙杀掉(Kill)烹了吃。章鱼(Octopus)保罗(Paul)是不是奇特，永远不要浪费你的一分一秒，去想任何你不喜欢的人。
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但是这不影响我玩，一是我选大公司，二是我玩的小，就算追杀也不至于追杀(Kill)我吧，输赢其实多数(Most)是把握在自己手中的，他追杀你，你止损，不让他追杀不就得了，不可能天天扭着你一个小玩家追杀。
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Kill screen
Kill screen
顶部压井法
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扣杀；【足球】停(球)
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the act of terminating a life
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
&the pilot reported two kills during the mission&
put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
&This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank&; & The farmer killed a pig for the holidays&
thwart the passage of
&kill a motion&
cause the death of, without intention
&She was killed in the collision of three cars&
end or extinguish by forceful means
&cigarettes kill&; & drunken driving kills&
be the source of great pain for
&These new shoes are killing me!&
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
&The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!&
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
&She killed the ball&
hit with great force
&He killed the ball&
deprive of life
&AIDS has killed thousands in Africa&
drink down entirely
&She killed a bottle of brandy that night&
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
&kill these lines in the President's speech&
tire out completely
&The daily stress of her work is killing her&
cause to cease operating
&kill the engine&
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
&Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods&
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杀死，弄死：
She hysterically screamed, “I'll kill you!”
她歇斯底里地叫着：“我要杀了你!”
使死亡，使丧生；是…死亡的原因：
The frost killed those flowers.
严霜冻死了那些花。
Lung cancer killed his father.
他的父亲死于肺癌。
He was killed in action.
他在作战中阵亡。
屠宰(牲畜等)，屠杀：
to kill the animal for food
宰杀动物为食
宰得(动物的肉)：
to kill beef
毁掉，消灭；使破灭；扼杀：
to kill one's appetite
What he said killed all my hopes.
他的讲话使我的一切希望都破灭了。
The failure did not kill their faith.
这次失败没有摧毁他们的信念。
使终止；使消失：
to kill the pain
A piece of bread is not enough to kill my hunger.
仅仅一块面包不足以让我充饥。
to kill the noise
消磨(时光)：
I often read some novel to kill time when I am alone at home.
当我一个在家时，我常通过读小说来消磨时光。
中和；抵消(效果等)：
The curtains kills the furniture.
窗帘使家具大为失色。
A carpet may kill the sound of the footsteps.
地毯可以降低脚步声。
破坏(效果等)；弄糟：
The blue colour totally killed the painting.
那种蓝颜色完全破坏了这幅画的效果。
浪费(时间)：
He killed ten good years on that job.
他在那件工作上浪费了整整10年时间。
[口语]删除，涂掉(章节等)：
The editor killed a few useless lines.
编辑删掉了几行无用的文字。
[美国口语]不刊登，不采用：
The chief editor decided to kill the advertising pages.
主编决定取消广告版。
【印刷】拆(版)
[口语]使(议案等)不能通过，否决；拒绝(申请等)：
to kill a bill
to kill a petition
断然拒绝申请
[口语]使精疲力竭：
The long walk killed us.
长时间的行走使我们精疲力竭。
[口语]使极不舒服；使疼痛难忍：
I can't run any longer, my feet are killing me!
我不能再跑了，我的脚疼死了!
[口语]征服；折服；使倾倒；使着迷：
His perfect performance killed the audience.
他完美的表演征服了所有的观众。
She kills everyone with her beauty.
她的美貌令所有的人都为之倾倒。
煞住，使停住，使(引擎等)停止运转：
The driver killed the engine before he left the car.
司机在离开车子前将发动机关掉了。
关闭(电灯、聚光灯等)，切断(电流)；熄灭(烟头)：
to kill the light
The electrician killed the live circuit.
那位电工切断了通电电路。
Be sure to kill your cigarette butt before throwing it away.
将烟蒂扔掉前一定要把它熄灭。
中止，使无法继续下去：
He killed further discussion with his absence.
他的缺席使讨论无法再继续下去。
【网球】扣杀；【足球】停(球)
宠坏，(因溺爱等)害(某人)(常与with连用):
to kill somebody with kindness
因溺爱而害了某人
You will kill the child with indulgence.
你过分放任这个孩子会害了他的。
[俚语]喝光(酒)；吃完；完全消耗：
They killed a bottle of wine between them.
他们两人喝光了一瓶酒。
(赛跑中)突然加速甩开(对手)
【冶金学】使脱氧
杀生，杀人；导致死亡：
Thou shalt not kill.
不可杀人。
(植物等)被弄死；被杀死：
These flowers kill easily in summer.
这些花在夏季很容易枯死。
Mosquitoes kill easily when incubating.
蚊子在产卵时很容易被消灭。
(牲畜等)适于屠宰：
The ox kills well.
那头牛的出肉率很高。
产生不可抗拒的效果：
The young woman is dressed to kill.
那位年轻妇人刻意打扮，以使人为她而倾倒。
杀死；杀人；捕杀；屠宰
被屠宰的牲畜；(被杀死的)猎获物
【网球】扣球
[口语]被击毁的敌机(或敌舰等)
[口语](拳击中)击倒对方的一拳
致命的，致死的
be dressed (或 got up) to kill
[口语]打扮得花枝招展以使人倾倒
be in at the kill
猎物被杀时在场
(活动、事情)结束时在场；(比赛等)获胜时在场
(it) won't kill you (us, him, etc.)
对你(或我们、他等)算不了什么(或没什么大不了的)
kill oneself
竭尽全力，耗尽精力
kill or cure
(医药)要么断送生命，要么挽救生命
不管怎样，好歹；孤注一掷；要么成功，要么失败
(猪、牛等)出肉率高
on the kill
(动物)为取得食物而有杀害之意
为达到目的而不择手段
shoot to kill
[俚语]过分地；过度地
[美国口语]川，小溪；支流；水道
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If a person, animal, or other living thing is killed, something or someone causes them to die. 杀死
More than 1,000 people have been killed by the armed forces.
已经有一千多人被武装部队杀死。
He had attempted to kill himself on several occasions.
他好几次都企图自杀。
Drugs can kill.
毒品可以致死。
There is tension in the region following the killing of seven civilians.
7名平民被杀害后，该地区的局势紧张。
The act of killing an animal after hunting it is referred to as the kill. 猎杀
After the kill the men and old women collect in an open space and eat a meal of whale meat.
猎杀结束后，男人们和年长的妇女们聚在一个空地吃了一顿鲸肉宴。
If someone or something kills a project, activity, or idea, they completely destroy or end it. 使停止; 扼杀
His objective was to kill the space station project altogether.
他的目的是使太空站计划完全停止。
PHRASAL VERB
Kill off means the same as . 使停止; 扼杀
He would soon launch a second offensive, killing off the peace process.
他将很快发起第二次攻击，扼杀和平进程。
If something kills pain, it weakens it so that it is no longer as strong as it was. 缓解 (疼痛等)
He was forced to take opium to kill the pain.
他被迫服用鸦片止痛。
If you say that something is killing you, you mean that it is causing you physical or emotional pain. 使痛得要命
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My feet are killing me.
我的脚痛死了。
If you say that you kill yourself to do something, you are emphasizing that you make a great effort to do it, even though it causes you a lot of trouble or suffering. 拼命去做
I'm killing myself to get my work done.
我正在拼命完成我的工作。
If you say that you will kill someone for something they have done, you are emphasizing that you are extremely angry with them. (因为极度愤怒而想要) 杀死
Tell Richard I'm going to kill him when I get hold of him.
告诉理查德，我要抓住他就杀了他。
If you say that something will not kill you, you mean that it is not really as difficult or unpleasant as it might seem. 难倒; 伤害
Three or four more weeks won't kill me!
再多上三四个星期也难不倒我。
If you are killing time, you are doing something because you have some time available, not because you really want to do it. 消磨 (时间)
I'm just killing time until I can talk to the other witnesses.
我正在消磨时间，直到能跟其他的证人交谈。
If you say that you will do something if it kills you, you are emphasizing that you are determined to do it even though it is extremely difficult or painful. 即使把命豁出去
I'll make this marriage work if it kills me.
即使把命豁出去，我也要使这婚姻成功。
If you say that you killed yourself laughing, you are emphasizing that you laughed a lot because you thought something was extremely funny. 笑得要死
I eventually got to the top about an hour after everyone else, and they were all killing themselves laughing.
我终于在所有其他人之后又用了大概1小时到了顶部，他们都笑得要死。
If you move in for the kill or if you close in for the kill, you take advantage of a changed situation in order to do something that you have been preparing to do. 伺机而动
Seeing his chance, Dennis moved in for the kill.
看到机会来了，丹尼斯伺机而动。
to be killed outright
自杀；竭尽全力；尽最大努力
◎(医药)要么断送生命，要么挽救生命
◎不管怎样，好歹；孤注一掷；要么成功，要么失败
◎(药物、治疗)要么致死，要么治好
◎[比喻]孤注一掷；不管怎样
(猪、牛等)出肉率高
vt. 杀死；扼杀；使终止；抵消
n. 杀戮；屠杀
adj. 致命的；致死的
杀害的；迷人的；使人筋疲力尽的
杀手；致死；止痛药；宰杀的器具；断路器
杀戮；谋杀；猎获物
杀死；消磨；毁掉（kill的ing形式）
massacre, execute, murder, slaughter, assassinate, kill
这组词都有“杀，杀死”的意思，其区别是：
语气比slaughter强。指大屠杀，尤指屠杀失去了自卫能力的人。
指依法处死罪犯。
指谋杀或凶杀。
本义指大批宰杀动物，也指像屠宰牲畜一样一次杀死许多人。
通常指因政治原因用非法手段杀害政治领袖人物或短名人士。
普通用词，含义广泛，泛指以任何方式使人、动物或植物死亡。
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Fat the pig up and kill it.
把猪养肥再杀它。
They fumigated the room to kill the vermin.
他们用烟熏房间以杀死害虫。
He witnessed to having seen the accused kill the boy.
他作证说曾看到被告杀了那男孩。
He was found guilty of murder. Like those found guilty of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, he was hanged.
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I'll take I will kill the cat," he thinks, and so he does.
He hangs the cat.
我要杀了那只猫;,如他所愿，“,它就这样杀了那只猫。
If you're a bacterium your whole life is about swimming to nutrients and running away from things that would kill you.
假如你是一个细菌,你的一生将会在追逐养分,和逃避敌害中度过
"Insurgents used to kill anyone working in the police force, " says shopkeeper Yassir al Jumeili.
Besides, pesticides kill people, too: 300, 000 a year, most of them impoverished farm workers.
Giant squids are infamously bad listeners, and the whale just wants to kill the squid!
英文单词，字面义为“杀死”，有动词、名词、形容词词性。IT行业引用后转义为“剔除”、“删除”等。在游戏中有“1kill”，“2kill”一说，它代表连杀数。
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自杀；竭尽全力；尽最大努力
◎(医药)要么断送生命，要么挽救生命
◎不管怎样，好歹；孤注一掷；要么成功，要么失败
◎(药物、治疗)要么致死，要么治好
◎[比喻]孤注一掷；不管怎样
(猪、牛等)出肉率高
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This article is about the military term. For other uses, see .
Grave of an unknown British combatant, killed in 1942 during the . Because his identity is unknown, he is missing in action.
Grave of an unknown British Lance Corporal of the 50th Division, killed on . Buried in
Grave of an unknown , killed in the , 1944. Photographed in April 1945
Graves of 11 unknown British combatants killed during World War II, in
war cemetery
Grave of an unknown
combatant in ,
containing remains of unknown
combatants killed during World War II, in a Rhodes cemetery
Grave of an unknown American combatant in . Killed in 1917
Graves of unknown
combatants killed during World War One. Each concrete cross has a metal plaque bearing the word "Inconnu" i.e. "Unknown"
battlefield, containing the remains of 3000 unidentified French soldiers who died in 1915
Graves of unknown
killed in 1941 during the
in the National Military and Police Cemetery in
Missing in action (MIA) is a
classification assigned to , , , and
who are reported missing during
or . They may have been , , , or . If deceased, neither their remains nor grave has been positively identified. Becoming MIA has been an occupational risk for as long as there has been warfare or ceasefire.
Until around 1912, service personnel in most countries were not routinely issued with . As a result, if someone was
and his body was not recovered until much later, there was little or no chance of identifying the remains. Starting around the time of the , nations began to issue their service personnel with purpose-made ID tags. These were usually made of some form of lightweight metal such as aluminium. However, in the case of the
the material chosen was compressed fiber, which was not very durable. Although wearing ID tags proved to be highly beneficial, the problem remained that bodies could be completely destroyed, burned or buried by the type of high explosive munitions routinely used in . Additionally, the combat environment itself could increase the likelihood of missing combatants such as , or , and air-crashes in remote mountainous terrain, a desert, or at sea. Alternatively, there could be administrative errors e.g. the actual location of a temporary battlefield grave could be misidentified or forgotten due to the "" Finally, since military forces had no strong incentive to keep detailed records of enemy dead, bodies were frequently buried (sometimes with their ID tags) in temporary graves, the locations of which were often lost or obliterated e.g. the . As a result, the remains of missing combatants might not be found for many years, if ever. When missing combatants are recovered and cannot be identified after a thorough forensic examination (including such methods as
testing and comparison of ) the remains are interred with a tombstone which indicates their unknown status.
The development of
in the late 20th century means that if cell samples from a cheek swab are collected from service personnel prior to deployment to a combat zone, identity can be established using even a small fragment of human remains. Although it is possible to take genetic samples from a close relative of the missing person, it is preferable to collect such samples directly from the subjects themselves. It is a fact of warfare that some combatants are likely to go missing in action and never be found. However, by wearing ID tags and using modern technology the numbers involved can be considerably reduced. In addition to the obvious military advantages, conclusively identifying the remains of missing service personnel is highly beneficial to the surviving relatives. Having positive identification makes it somewhat easier to come to terms with their loss and move on with their lives. Otherwise, some relatives may suspect that the missing person is still alive somewhere and may return someday. However, many of these identifying procedures are not typically used for combatants who are members of militias, mercenary armies, insurrections, and other irregular forces.
It is possible that some of the combatants who took part of the
in 480 BC went missing in action. Certainly, the numerous wars which followed over successive centuries created many MIAs. The list is long and includes most battles which have ever been fought by any nation. The usual problems of identification caused by rapid decomposition were exacerbated by the fact that it was common practice to loot the remains of the dead for any valuables e.g. personal items and clothing. This made the already difficult task of identification even harder. Thereafter the dead were routinely buried in
and scant official records were retained. Notable examples include such
battles as , the , the later
together with any battle taking place until around the middle of the 19th century. Starting around the time of the ,
and , it became more common to make formal efforts to identify individual soldiers. However, since there was no formal system of
at the time, this could be difficult during the process of battlefield clearance. Even so, there had been a notable shift in perceptions e.g. where the remains of a soldier in Confederate uniform were recovered from, say, the , he would be interred in a single grave with a headstone which stated that he was an unknown . This change in attitudes coincided with the , the first of which was signed in 1864. Although the
did not specifically address the issue of MIAs, the reasoning behind it (which specified the humane treatment of wounded enemy soldiers) was influential.
The phenomenon of MIAs became particularly notable during World War I, where the mechanized nature of
meant that a single battle could cause astounding numbers of casualties. For example, in 1916 over 300,000 Allied and German combatants were killed in the . A total of 19,240 British and Commonwealth combatants were
or died of wounds on the
alone. It is therefore not surprising that the
in France bears the names of 72,090 British and
combatants, all of whom went missing in action during the Battle of the Somme, were never found and who have no known grave. Similarly, the
memorial in
commemorates 54,896 missing Allied combatants who are known to have been killed in the . The , meanwhile, contains 130,000 unidentifiable sets of French and German remains from the .
Even in the 21st century, the remains of missing combatants are recovered from the former battlefields of the
every year. These discoveries happen regularly, often during the course of agricultural work or construction projects. Typically, the remains of one or several men are found at a time. However, occasionally the numbers recovered are much larger e.g. the mass grave at
(excavated in 2009) which contained the skeletal remains of no less than 250 Allied soldiers. Another example is the excavation which took place at
( region of France) in early 2012, which uncovered the remains of 21 German soldiers, lost in an underground shelter since 1918, after being buried by a large-calibre British . Regardless, efforts are made to identify any remains found via a thorough forensic examination. If this is achieved, attempts are made to trace any living relatives. However, it is frequently impossible to identify the remains, other than to establish some basic details of the unit they served with. In the case of British and Commonwealth MIAs, the headstone is inscribed with the maximum amount of information that is known about the person. Typically, such information is deduced from metallic objects such as brass buttons and shoulder flashes bearing regimental/unit insignia found on the body. As a result, headstones are inscribed with such information as "A Soldier of The " or "An Australian " etc. Where nothing is known other than the soldier's national allegiance, the headstone is inscribed "A Soldier of The Great War". The term "Sailor" or "Airman" can be substituted, as appropriate.
There are many missing combatants and other persons in service from World War II. In the , 78,750 personnel missing in action had been reported by the end of the war, representing over 19 percent of the total of 405,399 killed during the conflict.
As with MIAs from the First World War, it is a routine occurrence for the remains of missing personnel killed during the Second World War to be periodically discovered. Usually they are found purely by chance (e.g. during construction or demolition work) though on some occasions they are recovered following deliberate, targeted searches. As with the First World War, in western Europe MIAs are generally found as individuals, or in twos or threes. However, sometimes the numbers in a group are considerably larger e.g. , which contained the remains of 14
soldiers killed in August 1944. Others are located at remote aircraft crash sites in various countries. But in eastern Europe and Russia,
include approximately two million missing Germans, and many mass graves remain to be found. Almost a half million German MIAs have been buried in new graves since the end of the Cold War. Most of them will stay unknown. The
is spearheading the effort. Similarly, there are approximately 4 million missing Russian service personnel scattered across the former , from
down to , though around 300 volunteer groups make periodic searches of old battlefields to recover human remains for identification and reburial.
During the 2000s, there was renewed attention within and without the U.S. military to finding remains of the missing, especially in the European Theatre and especially since aging witnesses and local historians were dying off. The group World War II Families for the Return of the Missing was founded in 2005 to work with the
and other governmental entities towards locating and repatriating the remains of Americans lost in the conflict. The president of the group said in reference to the far more publicised efforts to find remains of U.S. dead from the , “Vietnam had advocates. This was an older generation, and they didn’t know who to turn to.”
In 2008, investigators began to conduct searches on
atoll in the Pacific Ocean, trying to locate the remains of 139 , missing since the
in 1943. Between 2013 and 2016 the remains of 37 USMC were recovered from Tarawa.
As of February 2017, according to the U.S. Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Accounting Office, there were still 73,089 U.S. servicemen/Civilians still unaccounted for from World War II.
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By October 1950, an estimated 700 US POWs had been captured by the North Koreans. By August 1953 only 262 one of the survivors was Pfc Wayne A. "Johnnie" Johnson, who secretly documented 496 military and civilian POWs who had di in 1996 Johnson was awarded the
medal for valor.
In August 1953, General , who had led U.S. and UN forces in Korea, estimated that "a large percentage" of those service members listed as missing in action were alive.{Ironically General Van Fleet's son was MIA from a USAF mission over North Korea}
In 1954 during
the remains of 4,023 UN personnel were received from North Korea of which 1,868 were A of the recovered US remains 848 were unidentified. A 1954 US Department of Defense Loss concentrations map estimates nearly 65% of US MIAS/POWS as being lost in North Korea:
1,200-1,273 in POW C
1,109-1,559 in Unsan/C
89 in the DMZ;
266 in UN Cemeteries {Koto-Ri; H W Pyongyang};
3,260 to 4,116 Total
Of 777 unknown remains recovered from 1982 to 2016 from North K South K C J & Hawaii's
a total of 378 were identified.
investigated some outstanding issues and reports related to the fate of U.S. service personnel still missing from the Korean War. In 1996, the Defense Department stated that there was no clear evidence any of the U.S. prisoners were still alive.
As of 2005, at least 500
were believed to be still detained by the North Korean regime.that same year the U.S. suspended talks with North Korea over the recovery of MIAs.
In 2010, it was reported that the Obama administration was reversing the Bush administration's suspended talks in regard to North Korea MIAs.
In 2011 the
(VFW) adopted Resolution # 423 calling for renewed discussions with North Korea to recover Americans missing in action
On July 27, 2011 Congressman
introduced a Congressional Resolution calling on North Korea to repatriate POW/MIAS and abductees from North Korea.
In January 2012 it was announced that members of JPAC would go to North Korea in the spring to search for an estimated 5,000 MIAs in the
In February 2012 talks were going ahead between the US and North Korea to resume discussions to recover US MIAs after seven years.
On March 8, 2012 the US announced it would search for MIAs in North Korea, however on March 21, 2012, US President Obama's administration suspended talks with North Korea over the recovery of US servicemen killed and missing in North Korea.
In 2013 the Coalition of Families of Cold War POWS/Korean War MIAS started an online petition to Obama to resolve Cold/Korean War mysteries.
(now the ) and the equivalent South Korean command are actively involved in trying to locate and identify remains of both countries' personnel.
Remains of missing combatants from the Korean War are periodically recovered and identified in both North and South Korea.It is thought that 13,000 South Korean and 2,000 U.S. combatants are buried in the
alone and never found.
In October 2014, North Korea announced it was going to move the remains of about 5,000 U.S. combatants en masse in an apparent attempt to force the U.S. to restart MIA recovery.
As of December 2015 the DPAA does not currently conduct operations in North Korea.
On June 24, 2016 despite Obama's deliberate refusal to reopen reparation talks in regard to the US MIAS, Congressmen Rangel, Conyers, Johnson introduced
calling on the US Government to resume talks in regard to the US MIAS. (C
are the last Korean War Conflict Veterans sitting in Congress)
As of February 2017 the estimated number of unaccounted U.S. personnel various from 7,768
A number of Australian combatants and POWs have also never been recovered from Korea. Of 340 Australian servicemen killed in the Korean Conflict, 43 are listed as MIAS
Since 1996, the remains of
combatants recovered from battlefield exhumations across South Korea have been buried in the , the majority of the over 770 burials are unknowns.
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The fate of American POW/MIAs from the
spurred interest in POW/MIAs from all wars. Here a roadside plaque in the U.S. state of
lists such figures.
"Missing in Action" plaque at Veterans Memorial Park in
Following the
were returned during . The U.S. listed about 1,350 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action and roughly 1,200 Americans reported killed in action and body not recovered. By the early 1990s, this had been reduced to a total of 2,255 unaccounted for from the war, which constituted less than 4 percent of the total 58,152 U.S. service members killed. This was by far the smallest proportion in the nation's history to that point.
About 80 percent of those missing were airmen who were shot down over
or , usually over remote mountains, tropical rain forest, the rest typically disappeared in confused fighting in dense jungles. Investigations of these incidents have involved determining whether the men involved survived their shootdown, and if not efforts to recover their remains. POW/MIA activists played a role in pushing the U.S. government to improve its efforts in resolving the fates of the missing. Progress in doing so was slow until the mid-1980s, when relations between the U.S. and Vietnam began to improve and more cooperative efforts were undertaken. Normalization of U.S. relations with Vietnam in the mid-1990s was a culmination of this process.
Considerable speculation and investigation has gone to a theory that a significant number of these men were captured as
by Communist forces in the two countries and kept as live prisoners after the war's conclusion for the United States in 1973. A vocal group of POW/MIA activists maintains that there has been a concerted conspiracy by the Vietnamese government and every American government since then to hide the existence of these prisoners. The U.S. government has steadfastly denied that prisoners were left behind or that any effort has been made to cover up their existence. Popular culture has reflected the "live prisoners" theory, most notably in the 1985 film . Several congressional investigations have looked into the issue, culminating with the largest and most thorough, the
led by Senators , , and . Its unanimous conclusion found "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia."
This missing in action issue has been a highly emotional one to those involved, and is often considered the last depressing, divisive aftereffect of the Vietnam War. To skeptics, "live prisoners" is a
unsupported by motivation or evidence, and the foundation for a cottage industry of charlatans who have preyed upon the hopes of the families of the missing. As two skeptics wrote in 1995, "The conspiracy myth surrounding the Americans who remained missing after Operation Homecoming in 1973 had evolved to baroque intricacy. By 1992, there were thousands of zealots—who believed with cultlike fervor that hundreds of American POWs had been deliberately and callously abandoned in Indochina after the war, that there was a vast conspiracy within the armed forces and the executive branch—spanning five administrations—to cover up all evidence of this betrayal, and that the governments of Communist Vietnam and Laos continued to hold an unspecified number of living American POWs, despite their adamant denials of this charge." Believers as one wrote in 1994, "It is not conspiracy theory, not paranoid myth, not Rambo fantasy. It is only hard evidence of a national disgrace: American prisoners were left behind at the end of the Vietnam War. They were abandoned because six presidents and official Washington could not admit their guilty secret. They were forgotten because the press and most Americans turned away from all things that reminded them of Vietnam."
There are also a large number of
MIAs from the Vietnam war whose remains have yet to be recovered. In 1974, General
stated that they had 330,000 missing in action. As of 1999, estimates of those missing were usually around 300,000. This figure does not include those missing from former South Vietnamese armed forces, who are given little consideration under the Vietnamese regime. The Vietnamese government did not have any organized program to search for its own missing, in comparison to what it had established to search for American missing. The discrepancy angered some V as one said, "It's crazy for the Americans to keep asking us to find their men. We lost several times more than the Americans did. In any war there are many people who disappear. They just disappear." In the 2000s, thousands of Vietnamese were hiring
in an effort to find the remains of missing family members. The Vietnamese Army organizes what it considers to be the best of the psychics, as part of its parapsychology force trying to find remains. Additionally, remains dating from the earlier
are sometimes discovered: in January 2009, the remains of at least 50 anti-French resistance fighters dating from circa 1946 to 1947 were discovered in graves located under a former market in central .
As of January 2017, according to the U.S. Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, US Military and Civilian personnel still unaccounted for number 1,617
According to the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, as of 2016 there were still 126 U.S. servicemen unaccounted for from the Cold War.
April 8, 1950, a U.S. Navy , (Bureau Number : 59645), flying out of , was shot down by Soviet fighters over the . The entire crew of 10 remains unaccounted for.
November 6, 1951, a U.S. Navy , (Bureau Number : 124283), was shot down over the . The entire crew of 10 remains unaccounted for.
June 13, 1952, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 44-61810), stationed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, was shot down over the . The entire crew of 12 remains unaccounted for.
October 7, 1952, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 44-61815), stationed at Yokota Air Base, Japan was shot down north of , . Of the eight crewmen on board, seven remain unaccounted for.
November 28, 1952, a CIA
aircraft flying over China was shot down, 2 captured and 2 one of the two killed American civilian remains unaccounted for.
January 18, 1953, a U.S. Navy , (Bureau Number : 127744), with 13 crewmen aboard was shot down by the Chinese, in the . Six crew members remain unaccounted for.
July 29, 1953, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 47-145), stationed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, was shot down over the . Of the 17 crew members on board, 14 remain unaccounted for.
May 6, 1954 a CIA Air transport
aircraft flown by
flying over Northern Vietnam was shot down. One of the two Americans onboard remains unaccounted for.
April 17, 1955, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 51-2054), based at Eielson Air Base, Alaska, was shot down near the southern point of , . The entire crew of three remains unaccounted for.
August 22, 1956, a U.S. Navy , (Bureau Number : 124362), was shot down off the coast of China. Of the 16 crew members on board, 12 remain unaccounted for.
September 10, 1956, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 47-133), based at Yokota Air Base, Japan, with a crew of 16, was lost in Typhoon Emma over the Sea of Japan. The entire crew remains unaccounted for.
July 1, 1960, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 53-4281), stationed at RAF Brize Norton, England, was shot down over the . Of the six crew members on board, three remain unaccounted for.
December 14, 1965, a U.S. Air Force , (Serial Number : 63-13287), was lost over the Black Sea, flying out of Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. The entire crew of two remains unaccounted for.
April 15, 1969, a U.S. Navy , (Bureau Number : 135749), was shot down by North Korean fighters. Of the 31 men on board, 29 remain unaccounted for. (see ).
investigated some outstanding issues and reports related to the fate of U.S. service personnel still missing from the Cold War. In 1992, Russian President
told the committee that the Soviet Union had held survivors of spy planes shot down in the early 1950s in prisons or psychiatric facilities. Russian
, co-leader of the , said that to his knowledge no Americans were currently being held against their will within the borders of the former Soviet Union. The Select Committee concluded that it "found evidence that some U.S. POWs were held in the former Soviet Union after WW II, the Korean War and Cold War incidents," and that it "cannot, based on its investigation to date, rule out the possibility that one or more U.S. POWs from past wars or incidents are still being held somewhere within the borders of the former Soviet Union."
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left tens of thousands of Iranian and Iraqi combatants and prisoners of war still unaccounted for. Some counts include civilians who disappeared during the conflict. One estimate is that more than 52,000 Iraqis went missing in the war. Officially, the government of Iran lists 8,000 as missing.
Following up on these cases is often difficult because no accurate or surviving documentation exists. The situation in Iraq is additionally difficult because unknown hundreds of thousands persons are missing due to Iraq's later conflicts, both internal and external, and in Iran due to its being a largely closed society. In addition, relations between the countries remained quite
the last POWs from the war were not exchanged until 2003 and relations did not begin to improve until after the regime change brought on by the 2003 onset of the . Some cases are brought forward when mass graves are discovered in Iraq, holding the bodies of Iranians once held prisoner. Websites have been started to attempt to track the fates of members of the
shot down and captured over Iraq.
(ICRC) has been active in trying to resolve MIA in October 2008, twenty years after the end of the war, the ICRC forged a memorandum of understanding with the two countries to share information collected in pursuit of resolving cases. Families are still desperate for knowledge about the fate of their loved ones.
In Iran, efforts at answering families' questions and identifying remains are led by the
of the , the , and the .
In Iraq, efforts are led by the .
According to the , 47 Americans were listed as POW/MIAs at some point during . At the conclusion of the
of 1991, U.S. forces resolved all but one of those cases : 21 Prisoners of War were repatriated, 23 bodies were recovered and 2 bodies were lost over the Gulf and therefore classified as Killed-In-Action, Body Not Recovered. That one MIA case, that of U.S. Lt. Cmdr. , became quite well known. He was reported as missing after his
was shot down in northern Iraq on the first night of the war. Over the years his status was changed from missing to killed in action to missing-captured, a move that suggested he was alive and imprisoned in Iraq. In 2002, his possible situation became a more high-profile issue in the build-
ran five successive front-page articles about it in March 2002 and in September 2002, U.S. President
mentioned Speicher in a speech to the
as part of his case for war. However, despite the 2003 invasion of Iraq and U.S. military control of the country, Speicher was not found and his status remained under debate. It was eventually resolved in August 2009 when his remains were found in the Iraq desert where, according to local civilians, he was buried following his crash in 1991.
How many Iraqi forces went missing as a result of the war is not readily known, as estimates of Iraqi casualties overall range considerably.
The two cases KIABNR:
Lt. Cmdr. Barry T. Cooke, U.S. Navy, was lost on Feb. 2, 1991, when his A-6 aircraft went down in the Persian Gulf.
Lt. Robert J. Dwyer, U.S. Navy, was lost on Feb. 5, 1991, when his FA-18 aircraft went down in the Persian Gulf.
Total of unaccounted for from Iraqi and other conflicts-6
can also be officially declared Missing In Action.
MIA is sometimes used in American English to describe difficulty finding something, particularly a person. "The employee is MIA." It is less often used in this context in UK English, where the equivalent phrase is "gone ".
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