Pentagon launches effort to solve a baffling WWII mystery

I think with all the advances in technology and DNA typing they should be able to find matches. They are presently working on identifying remains from Pearl Harbor that were put into mass "Unknown Sailor" graves.

most interesting ... with the modern advances in Medicine and the Applications of DNA... they should be Able to ID the passed Troops and sailors

Well anything that works should be used. The families of those still missing deserve full closure through any means possible. DNA is pretty much the gold-standard nowadays for identification