After 71 Years, Korean War Vet Will Finally Be Laid to Rest
13 Sep 2021
Associated Press
SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. — A Korean War veteran from upstate New York who died in action during one of the coldest winters on record is finally coming home.
Army Corporal Walter A. Smead's remains were among many that were turned over by the North Korean government in 2018. Scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA analysis and other evidence to identify him this March, the Albany Times-Union reported.
The 24-year-old Hadley resident was reported missing in early December 1950 on the sixth day of a retreat at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea as temperatures fell to 30 degrees below zero and soldiers froze to death or lost limbs to frostbite.
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