[Ads-l] antedating "MIA"

[Jonathan Lighter]

With WIA, KIA bonus:

1919 _Kansas City Star_ (Apr. 13) 14A:  A Kansas City Girl Helped Search
Records for Soldiers "M.I.A." ... "But sometimes we found W.I.A. or M.I.A.
(wounded in action) or (missing in action) [sic]....but our saddest duty
was to trace a man's record to a little card -- K.I.A. -- date, place,
cemetery, grave number."

JL

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 5:36 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> OED: 1946.
>
> 1944 _Springfield [Mass.] Daily Republican_ (July 20) 3: In Washington,
> the War Department file on Pfc Fred T. Gentry...reads "M. I. A." - missing
> in action.
>
> 1945 _Seattle Daily Times_ (Jan. 25) 2: I've come back with two engines
> wind-milling...and still not been worried - in any other plane you'd figure
> you were automatically M. I. A. (missing in action).
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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