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Missing POW's remains returned to his widow 63 years after his death Los Angeles Times
... Army honor guard met the plane as it touched down from Honolulu, where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and forensics labs are located.....
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- Cpl. Cletus R. Lies, U.S. Army, Medical Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Dec. 7, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Bremen, N.D., in the spring of 2014.
- Cpl. Joe W. Howard, U.S. Army, Battery A, 503rd Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 1, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Dec. 5, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Jacksonville, Fla., on Jan. 9, 2014.
- Sgt. 1st Class Joseph E. Gantt, U.S. Army, Battery C, 503rd Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, is now accounted for. He was lost Nov. 30, 1950, in the vicinity of Somindong, North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 26, 2013. He will be buried will full military honors in Inglewood, Calif., Dec. 28, 2013.
- Cpl. William A. Newton, U.S. Army, Headquarters Service Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 30, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 20, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Kountze, Texas, Dec.20, 2013.
- Pfc. Jerry P. Craig, U.S. Army, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost Dec. 2, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov. 19, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Leesville, La., Dec. 19, 2013.
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- 1LT Louis L. Longman, 433rd Fighter Squadron, 475th Fighter Group, 5th Air Force, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 16 April 1944 in Papua New Guinea. He was accounted for on 1 November 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Clinton, IA, in the spring of 2014.
- CPT Franklin B. Tostevin, 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, US Army, was lost on 20 March 1945 when his F-6P aircraft crashed near Eigen, Germany. He was accounted for 30 October 2013. He will be buried with full military honors at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, CO, on 13 December 2013.
- CPL George W. Conklin, Jr., Company I, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 3 December 1950 near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for 30 October 2013. He was buried with full military honors in Phelps, NY, on 9 November 2013.
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No. 716-13
October 11, 2013 |
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WWII Marines Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that two U.S. Marines missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Henry S. White, 23, of Kansas City, Mo., and Staff Sgt. Thomas L. Meek, 19, of Lisbon, La., will be buried as a group in a single casket representing the two servicemen, on Oct. 18, at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.
On July 21, 1943, White and Meek were crew members of an SBD-4 Dauntless dive-bomber that departed Turtle Bay Airfield on Espiritu Santo Island, New Hebrides, on a night training mission and failed to return. During the training mission, the aircraft was reported as crashed on a coral cliff on nearby Mavea Island. In September 1947, a U.S. Army Graves Registration Service team investigated the crash on Mavea Island, but recovered no remains. In 2012, a JPAC team excavated the crash site on Mavea Island, Republic of Vanuatu, and recovered the remains of White and Meek and non-biological evidence amid the aircraft wreckage, which included U.S. and Australian coins dating to 1942 and earlier, U.S. military captain's bars, and a military identification tag that correlates to Meek by name and service number. What was found at the crash site, along with the remains, correlate circumstantially to White and Meek, however, no individual identifications were possible.
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- Technician Fifth Grade Oneal Rush, U.S. Army, Company L, 76th Engineer Battalion, was lost Aug. 19, 1944 in an aircraft crash in Burma. He was accounted for Sept. 26, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors Oct. 26, in Galivants Ferry, S.C.
- Cpl. Harold A. Evans, U.S. Army, of Headquarters Co., 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, and part of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, was reported missing on Dec. 13, 1950, while deployed east of the Chosin Reservoir near Sinhung-ri, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea. He was accounted for on Sept. 26, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors Oct. 12, in Thief River Falls, Minn.
- Pfc. Norman P. Dufresne, U.S. Army, Company G, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division was lost July 30, 1950, near Chinju, South Korea. He was accounted for on Sept. 19, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors Oct. 19, in Leominster, Mass.
- Cpl. Robert J. Tait, U.S. Army, Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team was lost Dec. 6, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir. He was accounted for on Sept. 10, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors Oct. 5, in Bar Harbor, Maine.
- Col. Francis J. McGouldrick, U.S. Air Force, 8th Tactical Bomb Squadron, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, was lost Dec. 13, 1968, near Savannakhet Province, Laos. He was accounted for on Sept. 6, 2013. Funeral date and location to be decided.
- 2nd Lt. Vernal J. Bird, U.S. Army Air Forces, 5th Air Force, 3rd Bombardment Group, 13th Bombardment Squadron was lost in March 1944, when his A-20G Havoc bomber crashed in Papua New Guinea. He was accounted for Aug. 28, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors Sept. 28, 2013, in Springville, Utah.
- Sgt. Melvin E. Wolfe, U.S. Army, Company K, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost Dec. 12, 1950, during the battle of the Chosin Reservoir. He was accounted for Aug. 26, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors Sept. 23, 2013, in Boulder City, Nev.
- Pfc. Ronald C. Huffman, U.S. Army, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost on Feb. 12, 1951, during a battle near Saemal, South Korea. He was accounted for on Aug. 6, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Princeton, W.Va.
- Sgt. Charles L. Scott, U.S. Army, Company C, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team was lost Dec. 2 1950 near the Chosin Reservoir. He was accounted for Aug. 7. He will be buried with full military honors on Sept. 5, 2013 in Lynchburg, Va.
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The Defense POW/MIA Office announced the identification of remains belonging to four MIAs from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Recovered are:
- Technician Fifth Grade Oneal Rush, L Company, 76th Engineer Battalion, US Army, was lost 19 August 1944 in an aircraft crash in Burma. He was accounted for 26 September 2013. He will be buried with full military honors 26 October, in Galivants Ferry, SC.
- Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Vernal J. Bird, 26, of Lindon, Utah. On March 12, 1944, Bird, a member of the 13th Bombardment Squadron, 3rd Bombardment Group, was piloting an A-20G Havoc aircraft on an attack mission over the island of New Guinea. Bird’s aircraft did not return to base.
- Army Cpl. Armando Alvarez, 20, of El Paso, Texas. In late 1950, Alvarez and elements of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, also known as Task Force Faith, were forced into a fighting withdrawal to a more defensible position south of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. Alvarez was reported missing on Dec. 2, 1950.
- Air Force Majs. James E. Sizemore of Lawrenceville, Ill., and Howard V. Andre Jr., of Memphis, Tenn. On July 8, 1969, Sizemore and Andre were on a night armed reconnaissance mission when their A-26A Invader aircraft crashed in Xiangkhoang Province, Laos.
Read their individual recovery stories at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/news/news_releases/.
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Family longs for answers after relative died in Korean War
By EMILY K. COLEMAN - ecoleman@shawmedia.com
Created: Friday, August 30, 2013 11:41 p.m. CDT
Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013 11:48 p.m. CDT
Note to readers: As the family of Cpl. Donald Victor MacLean, who died in the Korean War, buries his remains Saturday, many other families are still awaiting that closure. Here is the story of one such area family.
ALGONQUIN – When Linda Thomson was a little girl, her grandmother would tell her stories about her Uncle Keith.Ensign Keith Thomson, a pilot with the U.S. Navy, was adventurous, very smart and never had to study, her grandmother, Helen Rutledge, told her. His picture sat in a place of honor in her Macomb home....
Cpl. Donald Victor MacLean was reunited with his family Wednesday, 63 years after he was declared missing in action during the Korean War. ...
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American POW's prized gold ring comes home after he gave it away for food during World War II
RALEIGH, N.C. – After a year and a half behind barbed wire as a prisoner in World War II, 2nd Lt. David C. Cox had just about reached his breaking point.
Deliveries of Red Cross parcels to Stalag VII-A had all but ceased, and the U.S. Army bomber co-pilot and his fellow POWs were subsisting on scanty rations of bug-infested soup and bread. Outside the wire, Adolf Hitler's forces showed no signs of giving up..... |
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- Pfc. Ronald C. Huffman, U.S. Army, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, was lost on Feb. 12, 1951, during a battle near Saemal, South Korea. He was accounted for on Aug. 8, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Princeton, W.Va.
- Pfc. Herene K. Blevins, U. S. Army, 7th Infantry Division, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, near the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on Aug. 6, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Hagerstown, Md.
- 2nd Lt. Valorie L. Pollard and Sgt. Dominick J. Licari, U. S. Army Air Forces, were lost on March 13, 1944, in northeastern New Guinea. They were accounted for on July 19 and July 17.
- Capt. Henry S. White and Staff Sgt. Thomas L. Meek, U.S. Marine Corps, were lost on July 21, 1943, when their SBD-4 Dauntless aircraft dive-bomber crashed on Mavea Island, Republic of Vanuatu. They were accounted for on July 3, 2013. They will be buried as a group with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Pfc. Jonathan R. Posey Jr., U.S. Marine Corps, L Battery, 11th Artillery Regiment, 1st Marine Division was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, during the fighting withdrawal from the Chosin Reservoir. He was accounted for on June 19, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors on Aug. 12, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Sgt. 1st Class William Robinson, U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 12, 1950, near Hagaru-ri, North Korea. He was accounted for on June 17, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors on Aug. 7, 2013, in Indiantown Gap, Pa.
- Sgt. Clement Thibodeaux Jr., U.S. Army, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25thInfantry Division, was lost on Nov. 28, 1950, near the Ch'ongch'on River, North Korea. He was accounted for June 13, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Church Point, La.
- Cpl. Glydon E. Moyer, U.S. Army, Battery D, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on June 13, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors on July 25, 2013, in Luray, Va.
- Pfc. Armando Alvarez, U.S. Army, Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on June 6, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the summer of 2013.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 575-13
August 09, 2013
Marine Missing From Korean War Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. service member, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Marine Corps Pfc. Jonathan R. Posey Jr., 20, of Dallas, will be buried Aug. 12 in Arlington National Cemetery. In December 1950, Posey, assigned to L Battery, 4th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, was serving provisionally as an infantryman with the 7th Marine Regiment at Yudam-ni in the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir. On Dec. 2, 1950, Posey was killed in action while the 5th and 7th Marine Regiments were withdrawing to Hagaru-ri.
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 Central Identification Unit for analysis. Those that were unable to be identified were interred as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, known as the "Punchbowl."
In 2012, analysts from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command reevaluated
Posey's records and determined that portions of the remains recovered from Operation Glory should be exhumed for identification. To identify the remains, scientists from JPAC used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, such as dental and radiograph comparison, which matched Posey's records.
Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that were previously recovered from North and South Korea. More than 7,900 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War.
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No. 521-13
July 18, 2013 |
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Soldier Missing from Korean War Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified and have been returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Sgt. Bernard J. Fisher of Wilkes Barre, Pa., was buried July 16, in Arlington National Cemetery. In January 1951, Fisher and elements of Company L, 3rd 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 19th IR attempt to delay the enemy forces from advancing, Fisher and his unit moved towards a more defensible position, when the unit suffered heavy losses. It was during this attack, that Fisher was reported missing.
In July 1951, the U.S. Army Graves Registration recovered the remains of four men north of Shaha-dong, near Seoul, South Korea. The remains were buried in the United Nation Cemetery at Tanggok, South Korea, and were disinterred and transferred to the U.S. Army's Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan for laboratory analysis.
During the analysis the remains of three men could not be positively identified. In March 1955, a military review board declared the remains of the fourth to be unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were transferred to Hawaii, where they were interred as "unknown" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the "Punchbowl."
In 2012, U.S. officials reevaluated Fisher's records and determined that with advances in technology, the unknown remains could likely be identified. Following the reevaluation, the decision was made to exhume the remains for scientific analysis identification.
In the identification of the remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, such as dental comparison and chest radiograph � which matched Fisher's records.
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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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.
Largely beyond the public spotlight, the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is sluggish, often duplicative and subjected to too little scientific rigor, the report says.....
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130707/NEWS03/130709631
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 Manlet F. Winkley, Company B, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost on 23 November 1943 on Tarawa Atoll in the Central Pacific (now part of the Republic of Kiribati). He was accounted for on 1 June 2013. He will be buried with full military honors on 24 August 2013 in Marion, Indiana.
PFC Armando Alvarez, Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 2 December 1950 near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on 6 June 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the summer of 2013.
SFC Joseph D. Steinberg, Battery C, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, US Army, was lost on 13 February 1951 near Hoengsong, South Korea. He was accounted for on 30 May 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the summer of 2013, in San Bruno, Calif.
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On foreign soil: the search for fallen Diggers
Michael Sweet
Published: June 9, 2013 - 3:00AM
Taking cover behind a stone wall near a village in northern Greece on April 12, 1941, two Australian soldiers, Private John McGarrity and Lance Corporal Robert Brown, decided to snatch a break after narrowly escaping German heavy machinegun fire.
''I guess that was close,'' McGarrity said, figuring they were safe for a moment, despite the enemy's proximity. ''Let's make the best of it and have a smoke.''
He rolled his cigarette, but never got to light it. ''He gave a soft cry and collapsed to the ground,'' Brown later told the Red Cross.
Almost immediately, Brown was also shot. As the two Diggers lay bleeding on the freezing earth, a German officer appeared. Brown was told he was now a prisoner of war; medics would see to his mate......
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[POW/MIA] A family's mission to find a lost pilot
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For nearly 50 years, the family of Capt. Harry Cecil Moore assumed that he'd been killed in the Korean War.
Then in 2002, the family received a shock: The Air Force pilot might have survived and ended up a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union.
For the past decade, Moore's brother and widow — who is now the brother's wife — have ve been on a mission to find out what happened, especially since the Department of Defense has offered them little information.
They have learned that hundreds, and possibly thousands, of other U.S. service members from four wars also might have been held captive by the Soviets.....
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Ala. soldier's remains returned, 62 years after his death in Korea
Published: June 8, 2013
For 62 years after Army Master Sgt. Olen Berry Williams was reported missing during the Korean War, even after he was considered killed in action, his family never lost hope.
Years were spent waiting for news. For anything....
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Missing In Action Returns Home
After a 62 year wait to come home from Korea
Master Sgt. Olen B. Williams, U.S. Army
Company K
3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment
7th Infantry Division
Remains are being returned and he will be buried
with full military honors in Clanton, Alabama
2PM on June 9, 2013
At the:
Martin Funeral Home
1300 4th Ave North
Clanton, AL
Please join us in
Paying our Respects to a Soldier
who waited so long to come back home
All riders are welcome to join.
STAGING INFORMATION
Battleship Park: 8:00am, 9 June 2013
KSU: 8:30am
For more information on Facebook:
Rolling Thunder Inc® Alabama Chapter 1
Let’s have a big turnout so
Master Sgt Olen B. Williams
knows he wasn’t forgotten.
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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.
- Maj. Louis F. Guillerman, U.S. Air Force, 609th Air Commando Squadron, was lost on April 30, 1968, near Savannakhet Province, Laos. He was accounted for on May 28, 2013.
- Cpl. Donald V. Maclean, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on May 22, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the summer of 2013, in Cary, Ill.
- Cpl. Marvin E. Omans, U.S. Army, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 3, 1950, near the Sinhung-ri, North Korea. He was accounted for on May 21, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in the June 24, 2013, in Little Rock, Ark.
- Master Sgt. Olen B. Williams, U.S. Army, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7thInfantry Division, was lost on Dec. 12, 1950 near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on May 1, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors on June 9, 2013, in Clanton, Ala.
- Pfc. James L. Constant, U.S. Army, Company A, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was lost on Sept. 8, 1950, near Changnyong, South Korea. He was accounted for on May 1, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors May 25, 2013, in Indianapolis, Ind.
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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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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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No. 192-13
March 29, 2013 |
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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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