Above is the Lubin, Poland memorial dedicated to Lt. Ewart T. Sconiers and other Allies of WWII.  Sconiers is the only American buried in Lubin.

PURPOSE

In 2015, the responsibilities of the former DPMO and JPAC offices were reorganized as one entity, the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Ageny (DPAA). One goal of this website was to mobilize all available resources to work with and through DPAA to expedite the excavation of Sconiers' burial site and return him to America for burial next to his mother in his hometown of DeFuniak Springs, Florida. 

Another aim of the website is to enlist support, documentation, information, and networking so that Sconiers' remarkable story might be fully, accurately, and honorably told, as well as the story of the unrelenting, passionately committed DPAA and volunteer researchers in the U. S. and abroad who surely were enlisted by Destiny in a bizarre sequence of events to lead Sconiers home.

Finally, and even more importantly, Sconiers' family hopes to inspire the families of some 35,000 "recoverable" WWII soldiers to work with DPAA to ensure family DNA samples are submitted on their behalf, to assure families that America truly keeps her promise to service men and women, and to learn and help share the stories all of the deserving freedom fighters and the lessons we all may learn from the human impact of war. 

          Who We Are

This website has been established by nieces of Ewart Sconiers-- "The 3 Ps"--Pamela (Official Next of Kin/Personnel Authorized to Direct Disposition), Paige, and Paula.  It is supported by Pamela's daughter Kenna, Ewart's niece Anita and her daughter Darrith, and Ewart's nephew Glenn.  The 3 Ps' quest to recover their uncle was dedicated to their beloved father, Kenneth David Sconiers. October 21, 2008 marked the 66th anniversary of the day Sconiers' B-17 was shot down and he was taken captive.

Florida friends Frank and Ann Higgins and Everett and Ann Richards were visiting Pamela and her husband Richard in Ohio. Ann Higgins insisted the women join the men on their visit to the U. S. Air Force Museum in Dayton,Ohio.  While there, Pamela recalled her uncle's heroics and looked for mention of him in WWII books in the museum gift shop. After the friends' inquiries about her uncle emerged, Ann Richards insisted Pamela "Google" her uncle's name, something Pamela had never done. On that date...Oct. 21, 2007...the anniversary of the day Sconiers was taken captive...Pamela was flung into the middle of his unfinished story. 

Sconiers' mother Maude, brother Kenneth, and sister Glennis died absolutely convinced Ewart had been shot while imprisoned and thrown in a mass grave, never to be found.  

The Google search engine produced inquiries about Sconiers from a Polish researcher and an American living in Poland.  Within 24 hours of Pamela's email response to the inquiries from Poland, her life dramatically changed. 

She was stunned to learn that DPMO had reopened her uncle's case in 2006, that he had been formally buried by comrades, that his burial site likely had been found, and that there was an international team of people diligently working to keep America's promise that he rest in peace at home. 

Within 36 hours, Sconiers' burial photos had been authenticated.  Sent then as an email attachment but held as originals by the family for decades, Pamela soon learned the names of all the American comrades pictured at her uncle's burial.  Because of the formality of the burial scene, the foreign-looking attire of those present, the Swastika evident on wreath ribbons, and Sconiers' "unrecoverable" status, Pamela's family always believed the photos were contrived by Germans to appease grieving families after the war.  

Within 24 more hours Pamela was privileged to speak by phone with two of the men pictured, Lt. Gen. Albert P. Clark and Milton Stenstrom (both of whom are now deceased). 

Destiny does have her way of making a point. 

Pamela joined (then) DPMO and the international team in the quest, visited Stalag Luft III and her uncle's gravesite in the town of Lubin, Poland, and is writing a book to share her uncle's incredible story, as well as that of DPAA and repatriation's other unsung heroes.