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05/2013 From the VA Weekly...
... MIAs Identified: The Defense POW/MIA Office announced the identification of remains belonging to:
* Army Sgt. William C. Knight, 20, of West Brookfield, Mass. In late November 1950, Knight and elements of the Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, known historically as Task Force Faith, began a fighting withdrawal to a more defensible position south of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. Knight would be reported missing during the withdrawal.
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All,
We only found out about this today.
I am truly sad to report the passing of Mr. Lloyd Pate. Some of you may not have known him but those that did have lost a friend. He was a frequent guest on POW/MIA Radio and he will be sorely missed. Life is short, treasure those friends while they are with us.
Thanks to Ms. Lynn O’Shea for finding this link on the net.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/augustachronicle/obituary.aspx?n=lloyd-pate&pid=163757147&fhid=5635#fbLoggedOut
Lloyd Pate
Obituary
Published in The Augusta Chronicle on March 21, 2013
GROVETOWN, Ga. - Retired First Sergeant Lloyd W. Pate, husband of Juanita B. Pate, entered into rest Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at Trinity Hospital, Augusta. Visitation will begin at 12:00 with funeral services following at 1:00 PM on Friday, March 22, 2013, in the Bellevue Memorial Gardens Chapel. Interment will follow with full Military Honors accorded. Mr. Pate was born in Columbia, SC to the late Carson and Evelyn Pate. He was a retired US Army 1SG with foreign service in the Korean War, Vietnam and Germany. Mr. Pate, a former POW, was the recipient of numerous awards and decorations including the Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and the Combat Infantryman Badge with star. Survivors include his wife Juanita Pate; three sons, Lloyd W. Pate, Jr. of Kentucky, Richard D. Pate, of Pennsylvania and Michael T. Pate, of Martinez; one daughter Terry Pate Thigpen, of Camak; three grandchildren (Sheila Sparkman, Teresa Taylor and Elizabeth Buff) and seven great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be members of the military. At the family s request, memorials may be made to the Korean War Ex- POW s. Korean War Ex-POW Assn. 909 Wisperwood TR. Cleveland, TN. 37312 http://koreanwarexpow.org. Starling Funeral Home, Harlem, Georgia. Please visit www.starlingfuneralhome.com to sign online guest book.
Rod
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The names listed here are U.S. military servicemembers who were once missing and are now accounted-for. Additional information may be seen by visiting the respective Vietnam, Korean War and WWII databases on this site.
These names are displayed in chronological order based on the accounted-for date. The highlighted names are linked to a more detailed news release on that serviceman's identification.
- Sgt. Charles Allen, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost on March 31, 1951, near Pyoktong, North Korea. He was accounted for on April 19. He will be buried with full military honors in May 2013, in Dallas, Texas.
- 2nd Lt. Richard Vandegeer, U.S Air Force, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Bernard Gause, Jr., U.S. Navy, Hospitalman Ronald J. Manning, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps servicemen Lance Cpl. Gregory S. Copenhaver, Lance Cpl. Andres Garcia, Pfc. Daniel A. Benedett, Pfc. Lynn Blessing, PFC Walter Boyd, Pfc. James J. Jacques, Pfc. James R. Maxwell, Pfc. Richard W. Rivenburgh, Pfc. Antonio R. Sandoval, Pfc. Kelton R. Turner, were lost on May 15, 1975, on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. They will be buried, as a group, with full military honors May 15, at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Maj. Howard V. Andre, U.S. Air Force, was lost on July 8, 1969, near Xiangkhoang, Laos. He was accounted for on April 11, 2013.
- Sgt. Jerome E. Kiger and Sgt. Charles R. Marshall, U.S. Army Air Forces, were lost on July 21, 1944, near Drobling, Germany. They were accounted for on April 10 and April 9. They will be buried with full military honors July 21, in Mannington, West Virginia and spring 2013, in Allen, Kentucky.
- Maj. James E. Sizemore, U.S. Air Force Reserve, was lost on July 8, 1969, near Xiangkhoang Province, Laos. He was accounted for on April 9, 2013 .
- Lt. Dennis W. Peterson, Ensign Donald P. Frye, Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technicians William B. Jackson and Donald P. McGrane, U.S. Navy, were lost on July 19, 1967, when their SH-3A Sea King helicopter was was shot down in Ha Nam Province, North Vietnam. Peterson was accounted for on March 30, 2012. Frye, Jackson and McGrane were accounted for in 1982 respectively. They will be buried, as a group, with full military honors May 2, at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Maj. Larry J. Hanley, U.S. Air Force Reserve, was lost on Nov. 4, 1969, near Khammouan Province, Laos. He was accounted for on March 20, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the summer of 2013, in Walla Walla, Washington.
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On May 1st a Cacti hero will be returned home after nearly 63 years. Sgt Willard Frank Williams of Easy Company was lost in Battle on November 28, 1950 and his remains were not identified until Oct of 2012. On Sunday April 28 his remains will be flown via Delta Airlines in to Memphis, TN airport at 10:56 AM and then escorted to the Southern Pines funeral home 100 Pine St., Lexington, MS. Then on Weds May 1st services will be held out of Southern Pine Funeral Home at 3 PM and the body escorted to Liberty Chapel Cemetery about 10 miles southwest of Lexington. A contingent of Cacti are planning on being there (including myself) and we would love any Cacti from any era who is in the general area to join us. So if you are from Mississippi or Southwest Tennessee (or any other area where you can make it please consider coming to join us in welcoming this hero home at last. You can contact me at the e-mail below.
Thanks --Doc Hall
Jim "Doc" Hall -- Woodbury NJ USA -- 04/13/2013
jimdochall@yahoo.com
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April 4, 2013
WWII SOLDIER IDENTIFIED
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the
remains of a U.S. serviceman, from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his
family for burial with full military honors.
Army Staff Sgt. Ray E. Thompson, of Portland, Ore., will be buried on April 10, in Pendleton,
Ore. On May 7, 1944, Thompson was a member of the crew of a B-24D Liberator that departed
Nadzab, New Guinea on a bombing mission. Due to mechanical troubles, the B-24D was delayed in
departing the airbase and was unable to join the formation after takeoff. Neither the aircraft,
Thompson, nor the nine other crewmen aboard the plane were seen after takeoff. In 1946, the War
Department declared all ten men to be presumed dead.
In 1973, a Papua New Guinea Forest Department official reported a wartime aircraft in the
mountains northeast of the city of Lae. In October 1973, a team of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
responded to the report and visited the site, where they found aircraft wreckage that corresponded to that
of a B-24D. At that time the RAAF recovered possible human remains, which were transferred to the
U.S. Army Mortuary in Tachikawa, Japan; however, giving the limited technology at the time, no
human remains were individually identified. In 1974, the remains were buried as a group at Arlington
National Cemetery.
In April 2008, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) team was sent to investigate and
survey the crash site. The team recovered aircraft wreckage, including a radio call sign data plate, that
matched the aircraft from a B-24D and additional remains.
To identify the remains, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification
Laboratory used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools such as dental comparisons
and mitochondrial DNA, which matched Thompson’s cousins.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. At the end of
the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans.
Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing
Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 224-13
April 10, 2013
Soldier Missing from Korean War Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that a serviceman, who was unaccounted-for from the Korean War, has been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Lt. Col. Don C. Faith Jr. of Washington, Ind., will be buried April 17, in Arlington National Cemetery. Faith was a veteran of World War II and went on to serve in the Korean War. In late 1950, Faith's 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, which was attached to the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), was advancing along the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir, in North Korea. From Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 1950, the Chinese People's Volunteer Forces (CPVF) encircled and attempted to overrun the U.S. position. During this series of attacks, Faith's commander went missing, and Faith assumed command of the 31st RCT. As the battle continued, the 31st RCT, which came to be known as "Task Force Faith," was forced to withdraw south along Route 5 to a more defensible position. During the withdrawal, Faith continuously rallied his troops, and personally led an assault on a CPVF position.
Records compiled after the battle of the Chosin Reservoir, to include eyewitness reports from survivors of the battle, indicated that Faith was seriously injured by shrapnel on Dec. 1, 1950, and subsequently died from those injuries on Dec. 2, 1950. His body was not recovered by U.S. forces at that time. Faith was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor?? - the United States' highest military honor - for personal acts of exceptional valor during the battle.
In 2004, a joint U.S. and Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (D.P.R.K) team surveyed the area where Faith was last seen. His remains were located and returned to the U.S. for identification.
To identify Faith's remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence, compiled by DPMO and JPAC researchers, and forensic identification tools, such as dental comparison. They also used mitochondrial DNA - which matched Faith's brother.
Today, more than 7,900 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War. Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were previously turned over by North Korean officials or recovered from North Korea by American teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO website at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call 703-699-1169.
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Soldier Missing from World War II Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman from World War II have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army 1st Lt. John E. Terpning, of Mount Prospect, Ill., will be buried on April 3, in Arlington National Cemetery. On May 7, 1944, Terpning was a pilot of a B-24D Liberator that departed Nadzab, New Guinea on a bombing mission. Due to mechanical troubles, the B-24D was delayed in departing the airbase and was unable to join the formation after takeoff. The aircraft, Terpning, nor the nine other crewmen aboard the plane were seen after takeoff. In 1946, the War Department declared all ten men to be presumed dead.
In 1973, a Papua New Guinea Forest Department official reported a wartime aircraft in the mountains northeast of the city of Lae. In October 1973, a team of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) responded to the report and visited the site, where they found aircraft wreckage that corresponded to that of a B-24D. At that time the RAAF recovered possible human remains, which were transferred to the U.S. Army Mortuary in Tachikawa, Japan; however, given the limited technology at the time, no human remains were individually identified. In 1974, the remains were buried as a group at Arlington National Cemetery.
In April 2008, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) team was sent to investigate and survey the crash site. The team recovered aircraft wreckage, including a radio call sign data plate that matched the aircraft, from a B-24D and additional remains.
To identify the remains, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools such as dental comparisons and mitochondrial DNA, which matched Terpning's brother.
At the end of World War II, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call 703-699-1169. |
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Recently Accounted-For
The names listed here are U.S. military servicemembers who were once missing and are now accounted-for. Additional information may be seen by visiting the respective Vietnam, Korean War and WWII databases on this site.
These names are displayed in chronological order based on the accounted-for date. The highlighted names are linked to a more detailed news release on that serviceman's identification.
- Sgt. Bernard J. Fisher,U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost on Jan. 1, 1951, near Seoul, South Korea. He was accounted for on March 14, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors July 9, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Staff Sgt. James McKain, U.S. Army, 5th Air Force, 43rd Bomb Group, was lost on May 7, 1944, near Nadzab, Papua New Guinea. He was accounted for on March 2, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the Spring of 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1st Lt. Douglas H. Haag, U.S. Army, Company K, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost between July 10-12, 1950, near Chochiwon, North Korea. He was accounted for on Feb. 28, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the Spring of 2013, in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Master Sgt. Ernest W. Grainger, U.S. Army, Company K, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost on July 11, 1950, near Chochiwon, North Korea. He was accounted for on Feb. 28, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in April 2013, in Conway, South Carolina.
- Cpl. Billy M. McIntyre, U.S. Army, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 31stRegimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 7, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on Feb. 27, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the Summer of 2013, near Carter, Oklahoma.
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March 5, 2013
SOLDIER MISSING FROM KOREAN WAR IDENTIFIED
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today
that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been
identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Sgt. Raymond B. Wellbrock, 20, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will be buried March 9, in his
hometown. In late November 1950, Wellbrock and elements of the 31st Regimental Combat
Team (RCT) were deployed along the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir near Sinhung-ri,
South Hamgyong Province, in North Korea. On Nov. 29, 1950, remnants of the 31st RCT,
known historically as Task Force Faith, began a fighting withdrawal to a more defensible position
near the Hangaru-ri, south of the reservoir. Wellbrock was reported missing Dec. 12, 1950.
In August 1953, during part of a prisoner exchange between U.S. and communist forces, a
returning U.S. soldier told government officials that Wellbrock was captured by enemy forces and
died shortly afterward from battlefield wounds and lack of medical treatment. His remains were
not among those returned by communist forces during Operation Glory in 1954.
Between 1991 and 1994, North Korea gave the United States 208 boxes of remains
believed to contain the remains of 200-400 U.S. service members. North Korean documents,
turned over with some of the boxes, indicated that some of the human remains were recovered
from the area where Wellbrock was last seen.
In the identification of the remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used
circumstantial evidence, compiled by DPMO and JPAC researchers, and forensic identification
tools, such as dental comparison, to identify Wellbrock. They also used mitochondrial DNA–
which matched Wellbrock’s brother and sister.
Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were
previously turned over by North Korean officials. Today, more than 7,900 Americans remain
unaccounted for from the Korean War.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing
Americans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.
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Korean War POW finally gets medal at 80 | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com
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DPMO's latest Newsletter can be seen at:
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/news/torch_newsletters/documents/Torch_2013_Winter.pdf
Page 3 lists recently accounted-for
Under “Korea”, please note "Airman 1st Class Jerry M. Wall" which is actually "Jerry N. Wall" who did not die in Korea!
According to www.abmc.gov, Jerry N. Wall AF18382764 of Unknown City and unknown State was a member of 62nd Maintenance Squadron, 62nd Troop Carrier Wing. On December 20, 1952, He was a passenger aboard a C-124 Globemaster transport departing Larson Air Force Base, Grant, Washington. The aircraft crashed on take off. Ninety personnel on board perished.
If JPAC actually does continue after the “Sequester”, we can expect the other 89 personnel aboard that non-battle plane to show up among the 200 mandated identifications in the coming year.
Also note that none of these men are on the PMKOR list of “unaccounted-for”. For 61 years, these men have not been “unaccounted-for”. Now our government must convince us that even though these 90 men have not been “unaccounted-for”, they must now be “unaccounted-for”, so our government can now account for them and take credit for solving the mystery.
Only in America!
JZ
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/27/remains-korean-war-soldier-reportedly-returned-home-62-years-later/Remains of Korean War soldier returned home 62 years later
Published February 27, 2013
FoxNews.com
The remains of a California soldier who disappeared during the Korean War are finally being returned to his family — 62 years later.
Army Pfc. Roosevelt Clark, of Arvin, Calif., will be buried on Friday in Bakersfield. Clark’s remains arrived in a flag-draped coffin at Los Angeles International Airport early Wednesday morning after a flight from Hawaii.....
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Remains of Monitor Sailors to be Interred at Arlington National Cemetery
Story Number: NNS130212-04Release Date: 2/12/2013 11:33:00
By Lt. Lauryn Dempsey, Navy Office of Information
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Feb. 12 that remains recovered from the USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
A ceremony will be held March 8 to honor the two unknown Sailors.
The specific date of the interment was chosen to honor Monitor's role in the Battle of Hampton Roads 151 years ago.
"These may very well be the last Navy personnel from the Civil War to be buried at Arlington," said Mabus. "It's important we honor these brave men and all they represent as we reflect upon the significant role Monitor and her crew had in setting the course for our modern Navy."....
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Soldier’s burial 62 years after he disappeared
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 7:02:58 EST
CUMBERLAND, Md. — A Cumberland family is saying goodbye to a Korean War soldier 62 years after he disappeared.
The Cumberland Times-News reports that the burial Wednesday of Pfc. James Hare ends decades of uncertainty.
Hare was sent overseas in 1949. His letters soon stopped coming, and his parents heard nothing about him for two years.
In 1951, they learned he had died in a prisoner-of-war camp and was buried in a mass grave....... |
- Lance Cpl. Merlin R. Allen, U.S. Marine Corps, Company A, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rdMarine Division, was lost on June 30, 1967, in Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam. He was accounted for on Feb. 16, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors on June 30, 2013 in Wisconsin.
- Master Sgt. Robert A. Stein, U.S. Army, Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, was lost on Dec. 4, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. He was accounted for on Feb. 6, 2013.
- Pfc. Daniel A. Benedett, U.S. Marine Corps, was lost on May 15, 1975, near Koh Tang Island, Cambodia, during a rescue mission. He was accounted for on Jan. 30, 2013.
- Pfc. James R. Hare, U.S. Army, Battery B, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost on Feb. 13, 1951, near the Korean town of Hoengsong. He was accounted for on Jan. 19, 2013.
- Lt. Richard L. Laws, U.S. Navy, was lost on Apr. 3, 1966, when the F-8E Crusader was struck by enemy ground fire. He was accounted for on Jan. 17, 2013.
- Cpl. Robert W. Scott, U.S. Army, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 1, 1950, near the North Korean town of Sinhung-ri. He was accounted for on Jan. 16, 2013.
- Cpl. Robert G. Archer, U.S. Army, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 32nd Infantry Regimental, 7th Infantry Division, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. He was accounted for on Jan. 14, 2013.
- Pfc. Weldon A, Davis, U.S. Army, B Battery, 38th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost on Nov. 30, 1950, near the vicinity of Somindong. He was accounted for on Jan. 9, 2013.
- Pfc. Bobby L. Byars, U.S. Army, Company M, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost on Dec, 12, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir. He was accounted for on Jan. 4, 2013.
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Korean War Veteran Finally Laid To Rest
Jeff Ray for CBS 11 News | CBSDFW.COM
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) – After being listed as missing in action for more than 60 years, a Korean War vet was laid to rest today.
This year private first class Weldon Davis would have turned 87 years old. At age 26 he was taken prisoner by the North Korean army and never seen again by his fellow soldiers. He was never forgotten either.
"We talked about him all the time" David Beavers of Athens told CBS11. The story of his missing cousin always came up at family reunions. "They had nothing but good things to say"¯ said Beavers.
For more than 60 years Weldon Davis was listed missing in action. In 2005 Army investigators were granted permission by the North Korean government to search a shallow mass grave of P.O.W's. Over 30 years Last fall Davis's remains were identified by the D-N-A of his cousins.....
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01/2013 - The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced the identification of remains belonging to two soldiers who had been unaccounted-for since the Korean War. Identified are:
- Army Pfc. Ernest V. Fuqua Jr., 21, of Detroit. In late November 1950, units of the 35th Infantry Regiment and allied forces were deployed in a defensive line advancing across the Ch'ongch'on River in North Korea when Chinese forces attacked. Fuqua was listed as killed in action on Nov. 28, 1950. His body was not recoverable at the time.
- Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, 20, of Tracy City, Tenn. In late November 1950, elements of the 31st Regimental Combat Team were deployed along the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea when they were encircled and attacked by Chinese forces. Schoenmann was reported as missing in action on Dec. 12, 1950. It would be later learned he died in captivity from malnutrition and lack of medical care for his wounds.
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/accounted_for/
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