Private First Class David S. Burke, lost during the Korean War, has now been accounted for.
Private First Class David S. Burke was a member of the 25th Infantry Division (25th ID), 24th Infantry Regiment (24 INF), 1st Battalion, C Company during the Korean War. On November 27th, 1950, PFC Burke was captured by the Chinese People's Volunteer Forces (CPVF) while engaged in combat operations in the vicinity of Anju, D.P.R.K. The captured Americans were most likely moved northto a POW camp known as Camp 5, near Pyokdong, D.P.R.K. After the war, returning POWs from Camp 5 reported that PFC BURKE died in the spring of 1951.
From 1990-1993, the D.P.R.K unilaterally turned over 208 boxes of greatly commingled remains purported to be those of U.S. Servicemen. After extensive analysis, the DPAA Lab ultimately identified the remains of PFC David S. Burke.
Interment services will take place in Akron, OH, in January.
The remains belong to Army corporal Kenneth Stuck -- an MIA for 65 years. “I can't wait until he comes home,” Stuck's brother Clarence, of Manheim, ...
A soldier comes home: Remains of Korean War veteran, MIA since 1950, have been found and identified TOM KNAPP | Staff Writer (/staff/tomknapp) Updated 3 hrs ago
The federal government said Monday that a U.S. Army corporal who went missing in the Korean War in 1950 likely died at in battle or a short time later and did not spend decades in captivity.
The information, provided by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, shed new light onan LNP story published Sundayabout Kenneth Stuck, whose remains have been found and are being shipped home.
Stuck’s brother, Clarence, said the agency told him Kenneth died only 20 years ago, meaning he would have spent four decades in a prisoner-of-war camp...
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Dear Editor,
The family of Army Sgt. Robert C. Dakin, 22, of Waltham, Mass., missing from
the Korean War, asked us to send you today's news release on the
identification of his remains.
He will be buried Dec. 12 in his hometown.
On Dec. 12, 1950, Dakin was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 31st
Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, and was declared missing in action
when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir during
a heated battle. A military board later amended his status to deceased when
no information was available pertaining to his loss.
His nephew, David Cline, of Winchendon, Mass., is available for interviews
if you would like to contact him, at (978) 696-1200.
The Department of Defense has the attached photos of Dakin on file.
HOLLY N. SLAUGHTER, Lt. Col., USAFR
Public Affairs
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1169
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-460-15
December 4, 2015
Marine Missing From World War II Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, unaccounted for since World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Marine Cpl. James D. Otto, 20, of Los Angeles, will be buried Dec. 8, in Arlington National Cemetery. In November 1943, Otto was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting, approximately 1,000 Marines were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded. Otto was reported killed in action on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio Island, but Otto’s remains were not recovered. On Feb. 10, 1949, a military review board declared Otto non-recoverable.
In June 2015, a nongovernmental organization, History Flight, Inc., notified DPAA that they discovered a burial site on Betio Island and recovered the remains of what they believed were U.S. Marines who fought during the battle in November 1943. The remains were turned over to DPAA in July 2015.
To identify Otto’s remains, scientists from DPAA used laboratory analysis, to include dental comparisons, which Matched Otto’s records, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died during the war.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
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To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: LOCAL CONNECTION: Calif. Marine Accounted For From World War II (U)
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Dear Editor,
The family of Marine Cpl. James D. Otto, 20, of Los Angeles, missing from
World War II, asked us to send you today's news release on the
identification of his remains.
He will be buried Dec. 8 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington
D.C.
In November 1943, Otto was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese
resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll, in an attempt
to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting, approximately
1,000 Marines were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded. Otto was
reported killed on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Media may also cover the interment from a respectful distance. Those wishing
to attend the event should contact Melissa Bohan at (703) 614-1091 for
details.
His cousin, Charles Otto, of Okmulgee, Okla., is available for interviews if
you would like to contact him, at (918) 859-2390.
Additionally, his cousin, Robert Otto, is also available for interviews, at
(361) 563-0409.
The Department of Defense has no photos of Otto on file.
HOLLY N. SLAUGHTER, Lt. Col., USAFR
Public Affairs
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1169
Harold Ivey never got to meet his big brother, Cpl. Charles Ivey, but on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the 65-year-old from Henderson shared a moment with him on the tarmac at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
He placed a hand on his brother's casket as it was rolled out of a commercial airliner, draped in an American flag....
Former Canadian soldier, John Robert Gallagher, was killed in Syria earlier this month while fighting with the Kurds against ISIS. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that his hometown, New London, Ontario, turned out in large numbers to welcome Gallagher on his last trip home; Hundreds including firefighters, the local police force and supporters came out […]
The remains of seven crew members missing since the USS Oklahoma capsized in the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor have been identified, the military said Monday.
The names of the servicemen identified using dental records will be released after their families have been notified...
PETALING JAYA, Nov 6 — The remains of three airmen of an American Dakota C-47B cargo plane which crashed on Gunung Bubu, Perak, during World War II were finally sent home yesterday.
Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Mohd Johari Baharom and US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter witnessed the handing over of the remains at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang.
Johari said the remains of pilot Judson B. Baskett, co-pilot William H. Myers and radio operator Donald E. Jones were retrieved under Ops Gangga, which in which personnel from the Defence Ministry, armed forces and the US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) took part.
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Airman Missing From WWII Accounted For (Pile)
15-071 | November 03, 2015
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William O. Pile, 24, of Circleville, Ohio, will be buried Nov. 10 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. On Dec. 23, 1944, Pile was assigned to the 559th Bombardment Squadron, 387th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force, and was deployed to Germany. Pile was the pilot of a B-26C Marauder, with eight other crewmen onboard, which crashed after being struck by enemy fire while on a bombing mission against enemy forces near Philippsweiler, Germany. Pile and his co-pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Ward, were reported killed in action. The other seven crewmen survived the crash by parachuting to safety; however, one crewman was captured by enemy forces and was reported to have died in captivity. His remains were later returned to U.S. custody. Pile and Ward were not recovered during the war.
In April 2009, a Department of Defense (DoD) team traveled to Philippsweiler to interview several German locals who recalled an American war-time crash. The team surveyed the possible crash site.
Between June 2010 and July 2011, two DoD recovery teams excavated the suspected crash site, recovering human remains and aircraft wreckage.
To identify Pile’s remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used circumstantial evidence and exclusion by mitochondrial DNA testing on a second set of remains associated with Ward.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call (703) 699-1420.
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Dear Editor,
The family of Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William O. Pile, 24, of Circleville,
Ohio, missing in action from World War II, asked us to send you today's news
release on the identification of his remains.
He will be buried Nov. 10 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington,
D.C.
On Dec. 23, 1944, Pile was assigned to the 559th Bombardment Squadron, 387th
Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force, and was deployed to Germany. Pile was the
pilot of a B-26C Marauder, with eight other crewmen, that crashed after
being struck by enemy fire while on a bombing mission against enemy forces
near Philippsweiler, Germany. Pile and his co-pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Ward,
were reported killed in action. The other seven crewmen survived the crash
by parachuting to safety; however, one crewman was captured by enemy forces
and was reported to have died in captivity. His remains were later returned
to U.S. custody. Pile and Ward were not recovered during the war.
His granddaughter, Elizabeth Dorstewitz, of Oakland, Calif., is available
for interviews if you would like to contact her.
The Department of Defense has no photos of Pile on file.
V/R,
HOLLY N. SLAUGHTER, Lt. Col., USAFR
Public Affairs
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1169
holly.n.slaughter.mil@mail.milwww.dpaa.mil
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Dear Editor,
The family of Army Cpl. Martin A. King, 18, of Harrisburg, Pa., missing in
action from the Korean War, asked us to send you today's news release on the
identification of his remains.
He will be buried Nov. 9 in Annville, Pa.
In early November 1950, King was assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th
Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when his unit was attacked by
Chinese forces while occupying a position along the Nammyon River, near
Unsan, North Korea. King was reported missing in action on Nov. 2, 1950,
while his unit was conducting a fighting withdrawal to a more defensible
position.
King's family does not wish to be contacted by the media.
The Department of Defense has no photos of King on file.
HOLLY N. SLAUGHTER, Lt. Col., USAFR
Public Affairs
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1169
holly.n.slaughter.mil@mail.milwww.dpaa.mil
In my haste to notify all of PFC Reilly's homecoming I failed to note a very important fact in this case that was not listed in the original notification from DPAA. And as you all know - 'Transparency is King'. That fact, PFC REILLY was - Found, Recovered and Identified by HISTORY FLIGHT, Inc, http://historyflight.com/nw/ . A not-for-profit Non-Government-Organization (NGO) under the leadership of Mr. Mark
Noah. The HISTORY FLIGHT team repatriated close to 38 Marines from this one operation on Tarawa alone.
Please, take a moment and visit HISTORY FLIGHT website using the link above...M
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Dear Editor,
The family of Marine Pfc. James P. Reilly, 20, of New York, missing in
action from World War II, asked us to send you today's news release on the
identification of his remains.
He will be buried Nov. 9 in Bushnell, Fla.
In November 1943, Reilly was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th
Marines Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese
resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll, in an attempt
to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting, approximately
1,000 Marines were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded. Reilly was
reported killed on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
His niece, Maureen Reilly, of New Hampton, N.Y., is available for interviews
if you would like to contact her.
The Department of Defense has no photos of Reilly on file.
HOLLY N. SLAUGHTER, Lt. Col., USAFR
Public Affairs
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
241 18th St. South, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 699-1169
holly.n.slaughter.mil@mail.milwww.dpaa.mil
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that Army Pfc. Frank Worley, 21, will be returned to his family for burial ...
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-405-15
October 23, 2015
Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
U.S. Army Cpl. Robert E. Meyers of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, will be buried Oct. 26, in Arlington National Cemetery. Meyers, assigned to Company A, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was declared missing in action, Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit was involved in combat operations in the vicinity of Sonchu, North Korea. The U.S. Army declared Meyers deceased March 2, 1954.
In 1954, United Nations and communist forces exchanged the remains of war dead in what came to be called “Operation Glory.” All remains recovered in Operation Glory were turned over to the Army’s Central Identification Unit for analysis. The remains they were unable to identify were interred as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, known as the “Punchbowl.”
In 2012, due to advances in technology, the Department of Defense began to re-examine records and concluded that the possibility of identification for some of these unknowns now existed.
To identify Meyers’ remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used circumstantial evidence, dental analysis, and chest radiographs, which matched Meyers’ records.
Today, more than 7,800 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War. Using advances in technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were previously returned by North Korean officials or recovered by American teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
The Department of Defense POW/MIA accounting agency said in a statement that in late November 1950, Witt was assigned to 1st Battalion, 32nd ...
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Dear Editor,
The family of Army Cpl. Robert V. Witt, 20, of Bellflower, Calif., missing
in action from the Korean War, asked us to send you today's news release on
the identification of his remains.
He will be buried Oct. 24 in Whittier, Calif.
In late November 1950, Witt was assigned to 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry
Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 7th Infantry Division,
historically known as Task Force Faith. The 31st RCT was deployed east of
the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, when it was attacked by overwhelming
numbers of Chinese forces. On Dec. 1, 1950, remnants of the 31st RCT began a
fighting withdrawal to more defensible positions near Hagaru-ri, south of
the reservoir. On Dec. 2, 1950, Witt was reported as missing in action.
His niece, Valerie Davis, is available for interviews if you would like to
contact her.
The Department of Defense has no photos of Witt on file.
V/R,
HOLLY N. SLAUGHTER, Lt. Col., USAFR
Public Affairs
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Air Force has released the names of two airmen who died in a 1952 plane crash in the Chugach Mountains that killed all 52 people onboard. The two men's remains were recovered in 2014, but a jurisdictional shift delayedthe identification of the crash victims, prompting much criticism, including letters from Alaska, Missouri, and Florida Congress members.
The families of Air Force Capt. Walter Perrin Tribble and Airman 2nd Class Bernis F. White have been told of the discovery and offered military funerals, the Air Force said....
Battery B, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division
2/13/1951
North Korea
7/22/2015
Sgt. 1st Class
Robert Reager
U.S. Army
Company C, 32nd Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division
12/2/1950
North Korea
7/21/2015
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-328-15
August 11, 2015
Airman Missing From World War II Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that servicemen, missing from World War II, have been accounted for and their remains are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William P. Cook of Alameda, California; Flight Officer Arthur J. LeFavre of Red Bank, New Jersey; Staff Sgts. Maurice J. Fevold of Chicago, Frank G. Lane Jr. of Cleveland and Ward C. Swalwell Jr. of Chicago; and Sgt. Eric M. Honeyman of Alameda, California, have been accounted for and will be buried with full military honors. Cook was buried Oct. 18, 2014, in Oakland, California. Fevold was buried Oct. 20, 2014, in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, and Lane was buried May 2 in Willoughby, Ohio. Honeyman was buried on June 22 in Trail, British Columbia, Canada. LeFavre will be buried on Aug. 18 in Arlington National Cemetery. The group representing the crew will be buried on Aug. 18 in Arlington National Cemetery. Swalwell will be buried on Aug. 20 in Arlington National Cemetery.
On Dec. 23, 1944, Cook along with five other B-26G Marauder crewmembers took off from Saint Quentin, France, on a mission to bomb an enemy-held bridge in Eller, Germany. The aircraft was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire near Seffern, Germany, near the Belgium border.
Following World War II, the Army Graves Registration Command (AGRC) conducted extensive field investigations and was unable to locate the aircraft and the crew. In May 1949, AGRC concluded the crew members were unrecoverable.
In 2006, a group of researchers from Airwar History Working Group Rhine-Moselle and History Flight -99th Division MIA Project located the wreckage of a B-26G associated with the loss of this crew, near Allmuthen, Belgium and notified the U.S. Army Mortuary Affairs Activity Europe. In 2007, a Department of Defense (DoD) team investigated the site and recommended it for excavation.
In 2012 and 2013, another DoD team excavated the crash site and recovered human remains, aircraft wreckage, and personal effects.
To identify Honeyman's remains, scientists from DoD and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools including, partial Y-Chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) DNA, which matched Honeyman's paternal-line cousins.
To identify Cook's remains, scientists from DoD and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including mitochondrial DNA, which matched Cook's maternal-line cousinS.
To identify LeFavre's remains scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched LeFavre's maternal-line niece and grandniece.
To identify Lane's remains, scientists from DPAA and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools including, partial Y-Chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) DNA, which matched Lane's paternal-line nephew.
To identify Fevold's remains, scientists from DoD and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Fevold's maternal-line niece.
To identify Swalwell's remains scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Swalwell's maternal-line sister and niece.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-326-15
August 10, 2015
Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Cpl. Nehemiah E. Butler Pocomoke City, Maryland, will be buried today in Arlington National Cemetery. In late December 1950, Butler and elements of Company C, 19th Infantry Regiment (IR), 24th Infantry Division (ID), were deployed near Seoul, South Korea, when their unit was attacked by enemy forces. During the attempt to delay the enemy forces from advancing, Butler was separated from his unit while moving towards a more defensible position. Butler was reported missing Jan. 1, 1951.
On July 19, 1951, a Republic of South Korea military officer told U.S. Army Graves Registration Services (AGRS) personnel about the remains of a U.S. serviceman, who, died and was buried near the village of Chik-Tong-ni. The AGRS team located the remains. Due to lack of documentation, the remains were declared unidentified. The remains were interred as unknown at the U.N. Military Cemetery in Tanggok, and were later disinterred and transferred to the Central Identification Unit (CIU) in Kokura, Japan. In 1955, the remains were transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), commonly known as the "Punchbowl".
In 2009, the Department of Defense (DoD) re-examined records and concluded that with advances in technology, the possibility of identification of some of these unknowns buried in the Punch Bowl now existed.
In the identification of Butler's remains, scientists from the DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence, dental and chest radiographs comparison, and mitochondrial DNA analysis, which matched his sister. Today, more than 7,800 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 recovery teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-321-15
August 06, 2015
Airman Missing From World War II Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing since World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Stephen V. Biezis of Chicago will be buried Aug. 14, in Arlington National Cemetery. His co-pilot, 1st Lt. James F. Gatlin of Jacksonville, Florida, was buried Jan. 30, in Bushnell, Florida. On Dec. 23, 1944, Biezis and his crew of five were assigned to the 575th Bombardment Squadron, 391st Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force and were deployed to Germany. Biezis was the co-pilot of a B-26C Marauder that crashed after being struck by enemy fire while on a bombing mission against enemy forces near Ahrweiler, Germany. Biezis, Gatlin and three other crew members were reported killed in action. His remains were not recovered during the war.
One of the crew members parachuted from the aircraft but was captured and held as a prisoner of war by German forces. Following his release, he reported to U. S. officials that he had no knowledge of the fate of the remaining crewmen.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) conducted investigations on the loss of Biezis and his crew and successfully located the crash site, near Manderscheid and Bettenfeld. The remains of two crewmen were recovered.
On May 27, 1999, a U.S. team investigating World War II losses in Germany visited a crash site near Bettenfeld. Two German nationals had researched the crash site and showed the team artifacts that were found and turned over remains collected from the site. Those remains were identified as Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Joe R. Sanchez, 20, of Los Nietos, Calif. He was accounted for in March 2011 and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Between 2011 and 2014, the Department of Defense teams traveled to Bettenfeld and conducted operations at the crash site.
To identify Biezis' remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used forensic identification tools to include mitochondrial DNA, which matched his sister and cousin.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
A POW MIA Flag flies at the graveside during burial services for seven missing U.S. Marines from World War II, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, at Arlington ... The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that the remains of 2nd Lt. Edward F. Barker of Herkimer have been identified from circumstantial evidence and DNA provided by his niece and nephew....
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors
Army Sgt. Joseph M. Snock Jr. of Apollo, Pennsylvania, will be buried July 6, in Arlington National Cemetery. In late November 1950, Snock was assigned to the Heavy Mortar Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), while fighting enemy forces east of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. On Nov. 29, 1950, Snock and elements of the 31st RCT, historically known as Task Force Faith, withdrew from their positions to consolidate with the rest of the 31st RCT south of the P'ungnyuri Inlet at the reservoir. During heavy fighting the day after consolidation, Snock was reported missing in action.
In 1953, as part of Operation Big Switch, returning U.S. service members reported Snock had been captured and died from malnutrition and lack of medical care in December 1950. His remains were not among those returned by communist forces in 1954.
Between 1990 and 1994, North Korea gave the U.S. 208 boxes of human remains believed to contain more than 400 U.S. servicemen who fought during the war. North Korean documents, turned over with some of the boxes, indicated that some of the remains were recovered from the vicinity where Snock was believed to have died.
In the identification of Snock, scientists from the DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence, dental comparison, and two forms of DNA analysis; mitochondrial DNA, which matched his sister and brother, and Y-STR DNA, which matched his brother.
Today, 7,846 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 by American recovery teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
... "…fearlessly exposing himself to the merciless slash of hostile fire as he stormed the formidable bastion," reads part of his Medal of Honor Citation.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-239-15
June 16, 2015
Soldier Missing From WWII Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing since World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John W. Herb of Cleveland, Ohio, will be buried June 18, in Arlington National Cemetery. On April 13, 1945, Herb was assigned to the 368th Fighter Squadron, 359th Fighter Group, 1st Air Division, as the pilot of an P-51D Mustang. His aircraft sustained damage while strafing German aircraft on the ground. During Herb's attempted landing in an open field southeast of Hamburg, Germany, his aircraft crashed. Herb's wingman reported seeing the wreckage burning in the field. Herb was reported killed in action. His remains were not recovered during the war.
In 1950, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) investigated Herb's loss, but was unsuccessful in finding his remains.
In June 2014, a DoD team working in the vicinity of Gudow, Germany, interviewed several locals who recalled a U.S. aircraft striking a tree and burning. The locals also reported that the pilot was severely injured in the crash and had been shot by a German soldier who removed him from the wreckage. The witness also stated that his remains were buried near the crash site. The team excavated the suspected burial site, recovering remains and aircraft wreckage.
To identify Herb's remains, scientists from DPAA used circumstantial evidence and dental comparison which matched his records.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died. Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted for from that conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
Tom Urban of Manchester, a ride captain with the Patriot Guard Riders, holds the POW-MIA flag outside Brewitt Funeral Home in Exeter as the remains ...
... will be buried with full military honors Wednesday in his hometown of Exeter, according to the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.... ...The remains of Corporal Elmer P. Richard, Army private first class, were flown into Boston’s Logan International Airport at about noon, where his casket was ceremoniously lowered into a hearse and a chaplain conducted prayers, said John Brewitt Jr., a funeral director at Brewitt Funeral Home in Exeter, N.H....
Army Cpl. Richard L. Wing. DoD photo.
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The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. soldier, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Cpl. Richard L. Wing, 19, of Toledo, Ohio, will be buried June 5, in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington D.C. In late November 1950, Wing was assigned to Company H, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, which was deployed north and southeast of the town of Kunu-ri, North Korea, when their defensive line was attacked by Chinese forces, forcing the unit to withdraw south to a more defensible position, near the town of Sunchon. Before they could disengage, the 1st Cavalry Division was forced to fight through a series of Chinese roadblocks, commonly known as the Gauntlet. Wing was reported missing in action after the battle.
In 1953, returning American soldiers who had been held as prisoners of war reported that Wing had been captured by Chinese forces in November 1950 near Kunu-ri, and died of dysentery in a prisoner of war camp known as Camp 5 in Pyokdong, North Korea.
Between 1991 and 1994, North Korea turned over to the U.S. 208 boxes of human remains believed to contain more than 400 U.S. servicemen who fought during the war. North Korean documents, turned over at that time, indicated that some of the remains were recovered from the vicinity where Wing was believed to have died.
To identify Wing's remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, to include two forms of DNA analysis; mitochondrial DNA, which matched his sister and brother and Y-STR DNA, which matched his brother.
Today, 7,852 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 by American recovery teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call (703) 699-1420.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-178-15
May 18, 2015
Soldier Missing from Korean War Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. soldier, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Cpl. Francis D. Knobel of La Crosse, Wisconsin, will be buried May 21, in Arlington National Cemetery. In December 1950, Knobel was a member of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, operating along the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. On Dec. 12, 1950, following the battle, Knobel was one of many men reported missing in action.
From Aug. 31 to Nov. 9, 1954, the United Nations and communist forces exchanged war dead, commonly known as Operation Glory. As part of the exchange, communist forces turned over 25 boxes of remains that were believed to be American servicemen who were recovered near where Knobel was lost. The remains were transferred to the U.S. Army's Central Identification Unit (CIU) in Kokura, Japan, for analysis. From the 25 boxes transferred to the CIU, 17 servicemen were identified; one box was believed to contain a Korean national, and the last seven boxes of remains could not be identified. When all attempts to associate the unidentified remains to American servicemen were unsuccessful, a military review board declared the remains to be unidentifiable and the remains were transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, commonly known as the Punchbowl.
In 2014, with advances in technology, the Department of Defense re-examined records from the CIU and concluded it was possible to identify the remains. The remains were exhumed and analyzed.
To identify Knobel's remains, scientists from DoD and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence, radiographs, and dental comparison.
Today, 7,852 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 recovery teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
The plans for honoring Watseka's late, but long-lost World War II veteran, Jack Redman, are growing.
Although he died Nov. 23, 1943, Redman's remains were only recently identified, allowing his family to finally plan a hero's funeral. With plans for Saturday's services announced, dozens of volunteers have stepped forward to further pay tribute to the 20-year-old Marine who's finally coming home....
Flight Officer Arthur J. LeFavre, 599th Bombardment Squadron, 397th Bombardment Group, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 23 December 1944 in Germany. He was accounted for on 22 January 2015.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-154-15
April 30, 2015
Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Master Sgt. Francis H. Stamer of San Fernando, California, will be buried May 6, in Arlington National Cemetery. On Nov. 1, 1950, Stamer was assigned to Company M, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when his unit was attacked by Chinese forces at Unsan village in North Korea. This attack forced the unit to withdraw five miles southeast to Ipsok village. Stamer was reported missing in action on Nov. 2, 1950. A military board later amended his status to killed in action.
Between 1990 and 1994, North Korea turned over to the U.S. 208 boxes of human remains believed to contain more than 400 U.S. servicemen who fought during the war. North Korean documents, turned over with some of the boxes, indicated that some of the remains were recovered from the area where Stamer was believed to have died.
To identify Stamer's remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including two forms of DNA analysis; mitochondrial DNA, which matched his niece and Y-chromosomal Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) DNA, which matched his nephew.
Today, 7,852 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 by American teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced yesterday that the remains of U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lts. William D. Bernier of Augusta, Montana; Bryant E. Poulsen of Salt Lake City, Utah; Herbert V. Young Jr. of Clarkdale, Arizona and Tech Sgts. Charles L. Johnston of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Hugh F. Moore of Elkton, Maryland and Staff Sgts. John E. Copeland of Dearing, Kansas; Charles J. Jones of Athens, Georgia; and Sgt. Charles A. Gardner of San Francisco, California, have been accounted for and buried with full military honors. Jones will be buried Feb. 28 in Athens, Georgia and Johnston will be buried March 2 in Arlington National Cemetery. On March 18, there will be a group burial service at Arlington National Cemetery honoring Poulsen, Copeland and the other crew members. Bernier was buried Sept. 19, 2014, in his hometown. Young was buried Oct. 15, 2014, in Prescott, Arizona Moore was buried on Nov. 11, 2014, in his hometown. Gardner was buried on Dec. 4, 2014 in Arlington National Cemetery.
On April 10, 1944, 12 B-24D Liberator crew members took off from Texter Strip, Nazdab Air Field, New Guinea, on a mission to attack an anti-aircraft site at Hansa Bay. The aircraft was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire over the Madang Province, New Guinea. Four of the crewmen were able to parachute from the aircraft, but were reported to have died in captivity.
Following World War II, the Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) conducted investigations and recovered the remains of three of the missing airmen. In May 1949, AGRS concluded the remaining nine crew members were unrecoverable.
In 2001, a U.S.-led team located wreckage of a B-24D that bore the tail number of this aircraft. After several surveys, DoD teams excavated the site and recovered human remains and non-biological material evidence.
To identify Jones' remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Jones' maternal niece.
To identify Johnston's remains, scientists from DPAA and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Johnston's maternal cousins.
To identify Gardner's remains, scientists from DPAA and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Gardner's maternal niece and nephew.
To identify Young's remains, scientists from DPAA and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Young's sister.
To identify Moore's remains, scientists from DPAA and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Moore's niece and grand-niece.
To identify Bernier's remains, scientists from DPAA and AFDIL used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Bernier's cousins.
To account for Poulsen and Copeland, scientists from DPAA used circumstantial evidence that placed them on the aircraft and accounted for as them as part of the group.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1169.
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. James F. Gatlin Jr. was buried in his home state of Florida after being missing in action for 70 years in Germany.
Gatlin was born in Clayland, an unincorporated community between Live Oak and Dowling Park where Clayland School used to operate and where Clayland Baptist Church now stands.....
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.
Cpl. C.G. Bolden, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Jan. 5, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 16, 2015. He will be buried with full military honors.
Capt. David Chorlins, U.S. Air Force, 602nd Special Operations Squadron, 34th Tactical Group, was lost Jan. 11, 1970, in Laos. He was accounted for Jan. 17, 2015. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. 1st Class James W. Holt, U.S. Army, Company C, 5th Special Forces Group, was lost Feb. 7, 1968, in Vietnam. He was accounted for Jan. 10, 2015. He will be buried with full military honor.
1st Lt. James F. Gatlin, Jr., U.S. Army Air Forces, 575th Bombardment Squadron, 391st Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force, was lost Dec. 23, 1944, in Germany. He was accounted for Jan. 9, 2015. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. Robert Higgins, U.S. Army, Battery C, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Feb. 13, 1951, in South Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 6, 2015. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. Joseph M. Snock, Jr., U.S. Army, Heavy Mortar Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, was lost Nov. 30, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 5, 2015. He will be buried with full military honors.
Col. William E. Cooper, U.S. Air Force, 469th Tactical Squadron, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, was lost April 24, 1966, in Vietnam. He was accounted for Dec. 22, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Pvt. Jack M. Redman, U.S. Marine Corps, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, was lost Nov. 20, 1943, in Tarawa. He was accounted for Dec. 20, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
A Montgomery family welcomed home the remains of a World War II pilot Thursday who had been missing for nearly 70 years.
Army Air Force Major Peyton Mathis, Jr. went missing in the Solomon Islands on June 5, 1944. He was piloting a P-38J Lightning on a bombing mission against Japanese gun positions when he lost engine power and crashed in a dense jungle swamp on Guadalcanal. A rescue team finally reached the site that day but was unable to recover his remains.
Last year a farmer found the crash and contacted a scrap metal dealer who specialized in military artifacts. Through the work of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Maj. Mathis' remains were carefully preserved and identified.
His coffin arrived at the Birmingham airport Thursday under military guard. Among those waiting for him was a nephew he never met. ....
AAn Army honor guard carries the casket of Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr. on Thursday at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham. Mathis died when the airplane he piloted crashed on Guadalcanal in 1944. He will be buried in Montgomery on Saturday.
AP Photo/ AL.com, Mark Almond
By Marty Roney | The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY | After dying on a distant battlefield more than 70 years ago, a Montgomery hero is returning home.
Army Air Force Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the P-38J Lightning fighter plane he was piloting crashed in the jungle on Guadalcanal, said Sgt. 1st Class Shelia L. Cooper, USA, assigned to public affairs of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office in Arlington, Va.
Crews found the crash site that day but were unable to recover his remains because the airplane was in a dense swampy area, she said.
In 2013, the plane was found, along with human remains, said Lt. Col. Melinda F. Morgan of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) at Pearl Harbor....
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The Defense POW/MIA Office announced the identification of remains belonging to three American servicemen who had been missing in action from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Recovered are:
Army Air Forces Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, of Montgomery, Ala. On June 5, 1944, Mathis was piloting a P-38J Lightning when the aircraft lost power while attempting to land at Kukum Air Field on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands. A rescue team located the crash site but was unable to recover Mathis because the aircraft was submerged in a dense jungle swamp. He will be buried with full military honors on a date and location yet to be determined.
A family receives notice the government recovered remains of soldier missing for more than 60 years.
CONWAY, AR--An Arkansas woman says she received word the remains of her missing husband are on the way home.
Geraldean Johnson says she's waited 63 years for her husband's return and she got the call she'd been waiting for last week.
In 1950 Corporal C.G. Bolden left his wife and son in Clinton to fight in the Korean War. He'd been gone for less than six months when the family received a visitor. ....
FREMONT, Ind. (AP) — The coffin carrying the remains of a northeastern Indiana soldier who died during the Korean war passed under a large American flag as it arrived at a cemetery for burial.
About 250 people attended Monday’s graveside service for Cpl. Leland Ford Smith of Angola. The Army says the infantryman was 18 years old when died from malnutrition at a North Korean prisoner camp in 1951...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A somber homecoming Saturday for a Hoosier soldier who was missing in action since the Korean War. It's been 64 years ...
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.
Cpl. Francis D. Knobel, U.S. Army, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 12, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Dec. 10, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Pfc. Anthony Massey Jr., U.S. Army, Company C, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Dec. 5, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. 1st Class Gordon L. Hannah, U.S. Army, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Jan. 28, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for Dec. 3, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. Donald A. Therkelsen, U.S. Army, Medical Company, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was lost July 17, 1953, in North Korea. He was accounted for Dec. 2, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. Gilberto L. Sanchez, U.S Army, Medical Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost Dec. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 25, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. 1st Class Earl E. Hilgenberg, U.S. Army, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was lost Nov. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 17, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. Abie L. Apodaca, U.S. Army, Heavy Mortar Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Feb. 14, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 13, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-598-14
December 01, 2014
Airmen Missing From WWII Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
Army Air Forces 1st Lts. William D. Bernier of Augusta, Montana; Bryant E. Poulsen of Salt Lake City, Utah and Herbert V. Young Jr. of Clarkdale, Arizona; Tech Sgts. Charles L. Johnston of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Hugh F. Moore of Elkton, Maryland; Staff Sgts. John E. Copeland of Dearing, Kansas and Charles J. Jones of Athens, Georgia; and Sgt. Charles A. Gardner of San Francisco, California, have been accounted for and will be buried with full military honors. Gardner will be buried Dec. 4 in Arlington National Cemetery.
On April 10, 1944, Gardner, along with 11 other B-24D Liberator crew members took off from Texter Strip, Nazdab Air Field, New Guinea, on a mission to attack an anti-aircraft site at Hansa Bay. The aircraft was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire over the Madang Province, New Guinea. Four of the crewmen were able to parachute from the aircraft, but were reported to have died in captivity.
Following World War II, the Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) conducted investigations and recovered the remains of three of the missing airmen. In May 1949, AGRS concluded the remaining nine crew members were unrecoverable.
In 2001, a U.S.-led team located wreckage of a B-24D that bore the tail number of this aircraft. After several surveys, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) teams excavated the site and recovered human remains and non-biological material evidence.
To identify Gardner's remains, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, including, mitochondrial DNA, which matched Gardner's maternal niece and nephew.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO website at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call 703-699-1169.
....According to the Joint Prisoners of War Missing in Action Accounting Command, there have been 126 WWII service members found since 2010. A Department of Defense restructuring of agencies is looking to increase those numbers to bring about more stories like that of Army Pfc. Cecil Harris....
A Korean War POW has been laid to rest near his mother's grave in California with full military honors more than 60 years after he died of untreated wounds in enemy hands.
Army Sgt. Lee Henderson Manning’s burial was held Friday at the Inglewood Park Cemetery near Los Angeles, bringing relief to his sister and other relatives.
“It really warms my heart and I know I can keep this in my memory bank forever,” Carrie Elam told KTLA-TV after her brother’s graveside memorial service....
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. soldier who died as a POW during the Korean War received full military honors in a hometown funeral attended by family members who feared the day might never come.
Army Sgt. Lee Henderson Manning, whose remains were recently identified, was finally laid to rest near his mother at Inglewood Park Cemetery near Los Angeles after a service that included presentations by representatives of South Korea and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. An Army honor guard fired rifles in salute, and the flag from the casket was presented to Manning's sisters, Carrie Elam and Helena Parker.
"My heart is very full," Elam told reporters. "I never ever thought that it would come to fruition like this."
Manning was just 20 years old when he enlisted right out of high school in 1950 and trained as a medic. He had hoped to become a doctor someday.
Returning prisoners of war reported Manning was captured by Chinese forces while rendering aid to members of the 9th Infantry Regiment during a 1950 battle. He died six months later from medical neglect.....
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The Defense POW/MIA Office announced the identification of remains belonging to eight airmen who had been missing-in-action since World War II. Returned home are:
-Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William D. Bernier, 28, of Augusta, Mont.
-1st Lt. Bryant E. Poulsen, 22, of Salt Lake City, Utah
-1st Lt. Herbert V. Young Jr., 23, of Clarkdale, Ariz.
-Tech Sgt. Charles L. Johnston, 20, of Pittsburgh, Penn.
-Tech Sgt. Hugh F. Moore, 36, of Elkton, Md.
-Staff Sgt. John E. Copeland, 21, of Dearing, Kan.
-Staff Sgt. Charles J. Jones, 24, of Athens, Ga.
-Sgt. Charles A. Gardner, 32, of San Francisco, Calif.
The crew of the B-24D Liberator was on a mission out of Nazdab Air Field in New Guinea to attack an anti-aircraft site at Hansa Bay on April 10, 1944, when the aircraft was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire. The eight airmen recovered are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. For details about the crew, click here .
Sgt. Shelia Sledge, public affairs officer with the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Office, said events like this happen six to eight times a year. Family ...
...Though most families in attendance Saturday wanted answers, George Stamer of Rockledge could offer hope to waiting families.
In September, Stamer received a phone call many can only dream of. His uncle, Master Sgt. Francis Stamer, successfully had his remains identified through a DNA match. A funeral complete with full military honors will take place next spring in Arlington National Cemetery....
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.
1st Lt. Raymond O. Ball, U.S. Marine Corps, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, was lost Nov. 27, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 13, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Pfc. Paul L. Tingle, U.S. Army, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 26, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 12, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. Leland F. Smith, U.S. Army, Company K, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 8, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. Richard L. Wing, U.S. Army, Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was lost Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 7, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Master Sgt. Francis H. Stamer, U.S. Army, Company M, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was lost on Nov. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 29, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. Michael J. Barra, U.S. Army, Company C, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Feb. 20, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 23, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Capt. Richard W. Vincent, U.S. Marine Corps, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, was lost Nov. 20, 1943 in Tarawa. He was accounted for Oct. 21, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Capt. Richard L. Whitesides, U.S. Air Force, 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron, 34th Tactical Group, 13th Air Force, was lost March 26, 1964, in Vietnam. He was accounted for Oct. 21, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Pfc. Anthony R. La Rossa, U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Feb. 13, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 20, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Staff Sgt. James L. Van Bendegom, U.S. Army, Company B, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, was lost July 12, 1967, in South Vietnam. He was accounted for Oct. 17, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
2nd Lt. Jimmie D. Collins III, U.S. Army Air Forces, 446th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, was lost on June 21, 1944, in the Netherlands. He was accounted for Oct. 15, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. Lonald D. Skeens, U.S. Army, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost Sept. 4, 1950, in South Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 11, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. Cameron M. Flack, U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 12, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 8, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. Arnold Pitman, U.S. Army, Company L, 3d Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 12, 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 7, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Army Lt. Timothy Smith is stationed in Honolulu, near the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. For soldiers there, it's part of their duty to occasionally ...
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. NR-485-14
September 17, 2014
Soldier Missing from Korean War Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Pfc. Arthur Richardson, 28, of Fall River, Mass., will be buried Sept. 18 in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington D.C. In January 1951, Richardson and elements of Company A, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment (IR), 24th Infantry Division (ID), were deployed northeast of Seoul, South Korea, where they were attacked by enemy forces. During the attempt to delay the enemy forces from advancing, Richardson and his unit were moving towards a more defensible position, when his unit suffered heavy losses. It was during this attack that Richardson was reported missing.
When no further information pertaining to Richardson was received and he failed to return to U.S. control during prisoner exchanges, a military review board reviewed his status in 1954, and changed it from missing in action to presumed dead. In 1956, his remains were declared unrecoverable.
Between 1991 and 1994, North Korea turned over to the U.S. 208 boxes of human remains believed to contain more than 400 U.S. servicemen who fought during the war. North Korean documents, turned over with some of the boxes, indicated that some of the remains were recovered from the vicinity where Richardson was believed to have died.
In the identification of Richardson's remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and Armed Forces DNA Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, to include mitochondrial DNA, which matched his niece and grand-niece.
Today, 7,880 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 recovery teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for
Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPMO web site at 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.
Pfc. Richard N. Bean, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division, was lost June 15, 1944, in Saipan. He was accounted for Sept. 4, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
1st lt. William Cook and Sgt. Eric M. Honeywell, U.S. Army Air Forces, 599th Bombardment Squadron, 397th Bombardment Group, was lost Dec. 23, 1944, in Germany. They were accounted for Aug. 27, Aug. 28, 2014, respectively. They will be buried with full military honors.
Sgt. Lee H. Manning, U.S. Army, Medical Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 1, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Aug. 26, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Pvt. Robert J. McConachie, U.S. Marine Corps, Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marines Division, was lost June 15, 1945 in Okinawa, Japan. He was accounted for Aug. 19, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
WWII Soldier’s Remains Linked To His Delray Beach Nephew
September 10, 2014 11:59 PM
DELRAY BEACH (CBSMiami) – The remains of an American soldier, who fought in World War II, have been identified and brought back for a proper burial.
On June 15, 1944, Army Pfc. Bernard Gavrin was fighting with his troop for control of the Mariana Islands as part of an allied strategic goal. In the thick of the battle, the enemy forces conducted a suicide assault that killed or injured more than 900 soldiers.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing since World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Pfc. Bernard Gavrin, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., will be buried on Sep. 12, in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C. On June 15, 1944, as part of an Allied strategic goal to secure the Mariana Islands, U.S. forces were ordered to occupy Saipan. After a month of intense fighting, enemy forces conducted a suicide assault, known as a banzai attack. This was designed to inflict as many casualties as possible against the 105th Infantry Regiment (IR), 27th Infantry Division (ID). During these attacks, elements of the 105th IR sustained heavy losses, with more than 900 soldiers killed or injured. Gavrin was reported missing in action on July 7, 1944.
On July 8, 1945, with no new information concerning Gavrin or 21 other service members of the 105th IR, investigators issued a presumptive finding of death. In November 1948, the American Graves Registration Services (AGRS) reviewed the circumstances of Gavrin's loss and concluded his remains were non-recoverable.
In September 2011, a private archaeological company excavated land near Achugao Village, Saipan, and uncovered human remains of an American serviceman from the July 7, 1944, battle. These remains were identified as Army Pvt. William Yawney, 23, of Freemansburg, Pa.
In September 2013, a Japanese non-governmental organization interested in recovering Japanese soldiers from the battle in Saipan, alongside the same private archaeological company from 2011, recovered human remains and personal effects belonging to American servicemen, from an unmarked burial located a few meters from the 2011 excavation site. The remains were handed over to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).
In the identification of Gavrin's remains, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools including dental comparisons and mitochondrial DNA, which matched Gavrin's cousin. Along with Gavrin, Army Pfc. Richard L. Bean, 24, of Manassas, Va., was accounted for.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPMO web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
More than 73,000 World War II soldiers are still missing, according to the Department of Defense Prisoner of War office. Yet, one family we spoke with has finally been able to bring their solider home after he was buried overseas for almost 70 years.
Private First Class Lawrence Gordon was killed in Normandy, France a few months after D-Day. His family was told the 28-year-old man had died, but they didn't know where his body was. It took a stranger to change that decades later.
For 70 years, Lawrence Gordon's family could only tell stories about the former sheep rancher who enlisted in the U.S. Army after the Pearl Harbor bombings.
14 years ago, his nephew, who was named after Gordon, asked the United States Government for the location of his uncle's body. He was told that the solider was buried at the Brittany American Cemetery in France. The younger Gordon visited the cemetery, and found his uncle wasn't buried there. In fact, he was on the wall of missing soldiers....
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.
1st Lts. William D. Bernier and Bryant E. Poulsen, U.S. Army Air Forces, 321st Bombardment Squadron, 90th Bombardment Group, 5th Army Air Forces, was lost April 10, 1944, in Papua New Guinea. They were accounted for July 18, 2014, and July 16, 2014, respectively. They will be buried with full military honors.
Master Sgt. Lawrence O. Jock, Battery A, 955th Field Artillery, 8th U.S. Army, was lost July 14, 1953, in North Korea. He was accounted for June 25, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors Aug. 1, 2014, in Malone, N.Y.
Staff Sgt. Gerald V. Atkinson, U.S. Army Air Forces, 358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, was lost April 10, 1945, north of Berlin. He was accounted for June 20, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors Aug. 16, 2014, in Chattahoochee, Fla.
Cpl. Alva C. Groves, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost on April 14, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for June 12, 2014. He will be buried with full military Honors.
Airman's remains returned home 62 years after his death
Posted 7/17/2014 Updated 7/17/2014
http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123417962
by Senior Airman Sarah Hall-Kirchner
375th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs
7/17/2014 - ELWOOD, Ind. -- The remains of 17 servicemembers were recovered by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Joint Task Force team from a 1952 aircraft crash site--and among them was Airman 3rd Class Howard Martin, of Elwood, Ind., who finally came home to rest July 10.
Waiting at the Indianapolis International Airport for him were his family and friends who gathered on the tarmac to receive his body along with members of the Scott AFB Honor Guard who performed the dignified transfer. The Honor Guard also served as pallbearers for the funeral ceremony, which was held July 12. ..
Hondo wrote about the news that Corporal William N. Bonner’s remains had been identified early last month. That blog post attracted the attention of CPL Bonner’s family and they sent us this local news article about the upcoming funeral and and the impact on the family and the community; Beryl cardinal is William’s sister, and […]
... of Chosin, was identified last year by scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory....
...Army Cpl. Cletus R. Lies, a Bremen, N.D., native who died at age 26 in the 1950 Battle of Chosin, was identified last year by scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.....
The Commissioners Court voted and approved a special commemoration to one of San Jacinto County’s veterans in their most recent meeting held on June 24.
Meritt Lilley fought in World War II and the Korean War and is to this day considered by some family members to be missing in action since 1950, although the military counted him officially as a fatality.....
Members of a specialized investigative team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command wait as a UH-60 Blackhawk from Joint Base ...
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release No: NR-324-14
June 18, 2014
CORRECTION: DoD Announces Casualty Recovery
The Department of Defense announced today 17 service members have been recovered from a C-124 Globemaster aircraft that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lawrence S. Singleton, Pvt. James Green, Jr., and Pvt. Leonard A. Kittle; U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Earl J. Stearns; U.S. Navy Cmdr. Albert J. Seeboth; U.S. Air Force Col. Noel E. Hoblit, Col. Eugene Smith, Capt. Robert W. Turnbull, 1st Lt. Donald Sheda, 1st Lt. William L. Turner, Tech. Sgt. Engolf W. Hagen, Staff Sgt. James H. Ray, Airman 1st Class Marion E. Hooton, Airman 2nd Class Carroll R. Dyer, Airman 2nd Class Thomas S. Lyons, Airman 2nd Class Thomas C. Thigpen, and Airman 3rd Class Howard E. Martin have been recovered and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
On Nov. 22, 1952, a C-124 Globemaster aircraft crashed while en route to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, from McChord Air Force Base, Washington. There were 11 crewmen and 41 passengers on board. Adverse weather conditions precluded immediate recovery attempts. In late November and early December 1952, search parties were unable to locate and recover any of the service members.
On June 9, 2012, an Alaska National Guard (AKNG) UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crew spotted aircraft wreckage and debris while conducting a training mission over the Colony Glacier, immediately west of Mount Gannett. Three days later another AKNG team landed at the site to photograph the area and they found artifacts at the site that related to the wreckage of the C-124 Globemaster. Later that month, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and Joint Task Force team conducted a recovery operation at the site and recommended it continued to be monitored for possible future recovery operations. In 2013, additional artifacts were visible and JPAC conducted further recovery operations.
DoD scientists from the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used forensic tools and circumstantial evidence in the identification of 17 service members. The remaining personnel have yet to be recovered and the crash site will continued to be monitored for future possible recovery.
For more information, please contact the service public affairs office. Army public affairs office can be reached at 703-614-1742. Navy public affairs office can be reached at 703-697-5342. Marine Corps public affairs can be reached at 703-614-4309. Air Force public affairs can be reached at 703-695-0640.
Note: The correct rank for the Air Force service members is Airman 1st Class Marion E. Hooton, Airman 2nd Class Carroll R. Dyer, Airman 2nd Class Thomas S. Lyons, Airman 2nd Class Thomas C. Thigpen, and Airman 3rd Class Howard E. Martin. Additionally 703-614-1742 is the correct number for the Army public affairs office and 703-697-5342 is the correct number for the Navy public affairs office.
Gordon joined the Army in 1949, shortly after graduating fromCrittenden High School. He was sent to Korea, where he died in a prisoner of war camp in 1951 at the age of 20.
Family members say they wondered about his fate for decades.....
Pfc. Randolph Allen, Marine Corps, Company F, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, was lost on Nov. 20, 1943, in Tarawa. He was accounted for June 17, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors July 28, 2014, in Arlington National Cemetery.
Pfc. Cecil E. Harris, U.S. Army, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, was lost on Jan. 2, 1945, in France. He was accounted for May 29, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors. The date and location of the funeral are to be determined.
Staff Sgt. Robert E. Howard, U.S. Army Air Forces, 450th Bomber Squadron, 322nd Bomber Group, Medium, 9th Air Force, was lost on April 16, 1945, in Germany. He was accounted for May 28, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors July 19, 2014 in Moulton, Iowa.
Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon, U.S. Army, Reconnaissance Company, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, was lost on Aug. 13, 1944, near Ranes, France. He was accounted for on May 27, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors summer 2014 in Canada.
- 83,281 Missing in Action Still Unaccounted For Since WW II
Yesterday, film producer, Richard Jellerson, traveled from California to Washington DC and tomorrow, along with his film crew, will be at Arlington National Cemetery to film and record the military funeral for Army Private First Class (PFC) James R. Holmes, who served in Korea with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.
PFC Holmes was taken Prisoner of War on December 1, 1950, died while in captivity and his remains were accounted for on January14, 2014. He was returned home after 63 years and will be buried with Full Military Honors in Arlington on May 29th. Richard will also be conducting interviews with family members and members of Veteran’s groups and representatives of the DOD office of POW/MIA accountability and will aslo film and take interviews at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The film is entitled “A Solemn Promise, America’s Missing in Action” and it will share stories like PFC Holmes’ about: America’s 83,281 still unaccounted for POW/MIAs; the stories of their family members still awaiting word after decades of not knowing if their loved ones were dead or alive; and the stories of those, whose job it is to locate, identify, return, and bury – with full military honors – America’s fallen warriors.
The Title’s term “A Solemn Promise”, refers to the one given to military members before entering into combat – a reminder…”We will leave no one behind”…but, as you can see, that was not true for over 83,000 who are still out there somewhere in or near former battlefields.
The film is being produced by Richard’s company; Storyteller Original Films and there is a 10-minute trailer on the company’s website at: storytellerfilms.tv Richard, a veteran himself - flying 2 tours of duty in Vietnam -serving the last tour as personal pilot for General Creighton Abrams - previously produced a very popular History Channel special entitled “The Personal Experience - Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam”.
News Release
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (Public Affairs)
Washington, DC 20301-2900 Phone: (703) 699-1169
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fax (703) 602-4375
May 21, 2014
Soldier Missing From Korean War Accounted For The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified andwill be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Pfc. James R. Holmes, 18, of Warren, Ohio, will be buried May 29, in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington D.C.
In November 1950, Holmes was a member of Company K,3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, which was pushing north through North Korea to the Yalu River. In late November the unit was attacked by enemy forces and withdrew south to the town of Anju. On December 1, Holmes was declared missing in action. As part of a 1953 prisoner exchange known as Operation Big Switch, returning U.S.service members reported that Holmes had been captured by the Chinese during that battle and died in 1951, in prisoner of war camp known as Camp 5, near Pyoktong, North Korea.
Between 1991 and 1994, North Korea gave the U.S. 208 boxes of human remains believed to contain 350 - 400 U.S. servicemen who fought during the war. North Korean documents turned over with some of the boxes indicated that some of the remains were recovered from Pyoktong County, near the area where Holmes was believed to have died.
To identify Holmes' remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantialevidence and forensic identification tools, including mitochondrial DNA, which matched his sister and brother.
Today, 7,883 Americans remain unaccounted-for from the Korean War. Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were previously turned over byNorth Korean officials or recovered from North Korea by American teams.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans, who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPMO web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
After 70 years, fallen WWII soldier will finally come home
For nearly 70 years, the fate of U.S. Army Pfc. Lawrence Samuel Gordon's remains was a mystery. Gordon's family knew he'd been killed on August 13, 1944 during the failed attempt to surround the Germans at the Falaise Gap in France. He was one of 44 casualties in his reconnaissance division. The remains of 43 were identified and returned to their families or buried overseas. Gordon was the only one unaccounted for ... until now.
On Monday, forensic DNA experts positively identified the remains of a soldier mistakenly buried as an unknown in a German cemetery in France as Gordon. But the announcement didn't come from theJoint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), the beleaguered U.S. agency tasked with finding and identifying the remains of 83,000 war dead dating back to WWII -- an agency that had a budget of around $100 million in 2012 and identified the remains of just 80 fallen soldiers. The identification of Gordon was carried out by a handful of volunteer researchers and forensic scientists who spent a total of about $25,000 to find and identify his remains....
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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.
Cpl. Lucio R. Aguilar, U.S. Army, Company M, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost on Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for on May 6, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Staff Sgt. David R. Kittredge, U.S. Army Air Forces, 450th Bomber Squadron, 322nd Bomber Group, Medium, 9th Air Force, was lost on April 16, 1945, in Germany. He was accounted for on April 23, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors summer of 2014 in Green Bay, Wis.
GREEN BAY, WIS.— The remains of a World War II soldier from Wisconsin have returned to Green Bay nearly 70 years after his death.
Relatives of Army Air Force Staff Sgt. David Kittredge accepted his cremated remains from an Army honor guard Monday. They escorted the remains to the Nicolet Memorial Gardens in the Town of Scott.
Kittredge of Oneida was born in 1922 and served as a radio operator during the war. His B-26 bomber was shot down in April 1945.
Human remains from the crash were discovered in Germany in 2012. The Armed Forces DNA identification lab identified Kittredge.
A memorial service with full military honors is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the memorial gardens.
Cpl. Harold W. Reed, U.S. Marine Corps, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, was lost on Nov. 29, 1950. He was accounted for on April 22, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors on May 24, 2014, in Toledo, Ohio.
Sgt. Richard John Archambeault, U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was lost on Nov. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for on April 29, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors. The date and location of the funeral are to be determined.
Cpl. William N. Bonner, U.S. Army, Medical Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was lost on May 31, 1951, in North Korea. He was accounted for on April 22, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors summer 2014, in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Cpl. Richard Isbell, U.S. Army, Company H, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was lost on April 25, 1951 in South Korea. He was accounted for on April 17, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Pfc. Arthur Richardson, U.S. Army, Company A, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was lost on Jan. 1, 1951, in South Korea. He was accounted for on March 21, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors.
Cpl. William S. Blasdel, U.S. Marine Corps, Company H, 3rd Battalion, 11th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, was lost Oct. 28, 1953, in North Korea. He was accounted for March 10, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors spring 2014, in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cpl. William F. Day, U.S. Army, Company C, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for on March 6, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors April 5, 2014 in La Center, Ky.
Capt. Douglas D. Ferguson, U.S. Air Force, 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, was lost on Dec. 30, 1969, in Laos. He was accounted for March 5, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors May 2, 2014 in Lakewood, Wash.
Sgt. Paul M. Gordon, U.S. Army, Company H, 2nd Battalion. 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost on Jan.7, 1951, in South Korea. He was accounted for Feb. 12, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors June 20, 2014, in Williamstown, Ky.
Pfc. Donald C. Durfee, U.S. Army, Company M, 31st Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 30, 2014. He will be buried March 6, 2014, in Rittman, Ohio.
Sgt. 1st Class John C. Keller, U.S. Army, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was lost on Nov. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 29, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors May 2014, in Florida National Cemetery.
Pfc. William T. Carneal, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, was lost on July 7, 1944, in Saipan. He was accounted for Jan 21, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors April 25, 2014 in Paducah, Ky.
Pfc. James R. Holmes, U.S. Army, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 1, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 14, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery in May 2014.
Cpl. Cristobal Romo, U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 12, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Jan. 13, 2014. He will be buried with full military honors in Riverside, Calif., March 22, 2014.
March 2014
Army Pfc. Donald C. Durfee, 19, of Painesville, Ohio. In November 1950, Durfee was assigned to Company M, 31st Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, when his unit was attacked and forced into a fighting withdrawal south of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was reported killed-in-action on Dec. 2, 1950.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Cpl. Joe W. Howard, 23, of Philadelphia will be buried Jan. 9, in Jacksonville, Fla.. In November 1950, Howard was a member of Company A, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division (ID), when his unit was attacked by Chinese forces near Kunu-ri, North Korea. On November 30, the 2nd ID disengaged enemy forces to withdrawal south. Howard was reported missing Dec. 1, 1950, near vicinity of Kunu-ri.
In 1953, as part of prisoner exchange, known as Operation Big Switch, returning U.S. service members reported that Howard had been captured by the Chinese and died due to malnutrition while in captivity in 1951, in Prisoner of War Camp 5 near Pyoktong, North Korea.
During Operation Glory in September 1954, United Nations and Chinese forces exchanged the remains of war dead, some of which were reportedly recovered from POW Camp 5 at Pyoktong.
A military review board in December 1954 declared the remains as unidentifiable and transferred them to Hawaii to be buried as unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the “Punchbowl.”
In 2012, due to advances in technology, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) determined that the possibility of identifying the remains now existed. The unknown remains were disinterred for analysis and possible identification.
To identify Howard’s remains, scientists from JPAC used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, such as dental comparison, which matched Howard’s records.
Today, 7,896 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 web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
