Soldiers missing from Chosin Reservoir and Bataan identified for return home
A military laboratory identified the remains of 16 missing soldiers, many of whom were last seen as POWs.
JOSHUA SKOVLUND
UPDATED ON JUN 20, 2024 7:35 AM EDT
The DPAA announced the identification and accounting for 16 service members from both WW II and Korean War.
Over a dozen Americans who fought and died in Bataan in World War II and at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea have been identified in recent months by a specialized military lab in Nebraska. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday it had identified, or ‘accounted for,’ the remains of 16 soldiers this spring, most from one of those two famous battles.
Scientists and historians at the DPAA, based at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, have spent decades matching fragments of bodies recovered from former battlefields with the names of U.S. service members long marked as missing in action.
“We just weren’t able to get them posted to our website until yesterday,” said DPAA media relations chief Sean Everette. “I know it seems like it was 16 all at once, but their actual IDs and family notifications were spread out.”
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