Vanished: Finding Missing WWII Soldiers in Palau

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, History, True Crime

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today we visit one of the bloodiest battle sites in WWII and tell the stories of the men who lost their lives there. When Pat Scannon discovered many of them were never found or brought home, he began a search to find them.For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!Alo Moves: Use code NPAD to get a free 30-day subscription.BetterHelp: National Park After Dark is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off.Claritin: Head to claritin.com right now for a discount.IQBAR: Text PARK to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products and free shipping.For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	No soldier left behind. This is the United States Armed Forces Sacred Oath.
0:09.2	The oath to never leave a fallen comrade is a promise made to fellow soldiers that even if they die
0:16.8	their brothers in arms will do everything they can to bring them home.
0:20.8	It is a sacred commitment to never leave anyone behind on a battlefield.
0:26.2	The US Army Soldiers Creed even says,
0:29.2	I will never accept defeat.
0:31.0	I will never quit.
0:32.3	I will never leave a fallen comrade behind.
0:36.0	Unfortunately that oath has not always been able to be upheld.
0:40.5	Nearly 81,000 American service members remain missing after having served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
0:50.0	At the time, circumstances made it too hard and too dangerous to return for the soldiers who lost their lives.
0:57.0	But now, decades later, after the dust has settled, it is time to bring them home.
1:07.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark. it. Kase is doing a world War II story. It's here. Sure. I always try to find a way to bring
1:37.4	World War II into the podcast, which is hard because there's not a lot of
1:41.0	national parks dedicated to World War II but and generally it's not a very
1:46.1	uplifting subject at least in the way that we speak about it well, I know you, I know this book that you are reading for it, but I don't know, I don't think anything about this story, so I'm really excited to hear it.
2:02.0	I feel like this has been a story I've actually kept
2:04.2	tight-lipped and haven't talked to you that much about. I know I know. Which is I don't know why.
2:09.6	I think it's just been because I've been so busy at home this week like we're doing a lot of
2:14.4	construction at the house like I haven't had time to text you like every thought that I'm having like I
2:19.1	I know which is actually so funny that you say that because this week between like the wedding I was at
2:24.4	last weekend and now and all the things you were doing and I was doing like just for some
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