{"id":145932,"date":"2023-08-16T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145932"},"modified":"2023-08-15T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T02:04:09","slug":"four-more-accounted-for-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145932","title":{"rendered":"Four more Accounted For"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War<\/h2>\n

Army Sgt. Cresenciano Garcia<\/h2>\n

The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Sgt. Cresenciano Garcia, Jr., 22, of Laredo, Texas, died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Apr. 25, 2023.<\/p>\n

In August 1950, Garcia was a member of Headquarters Company, 9th<\/sup>\u00a0Infantry Regiment, 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1 during a battle just south of Kunu-ri, South Korea. His remains could not be immediately recovered and was officially declared dead on or around February 28, 1951 in POW Camp 5, in the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.).<\/p>\n

In 1954 the opposing nations reached an agreement to exchange war dead, the execution of which was known as Operation GLORY. Remains were sent to the Central Identification Unit, Kokura, Japan, for processing and identification. One set of Unknown Remains, designated X-14189, was reportedly recovered from Ch\u2019angsong (Camp 1), D.P.R.K., and could not be identified after analysis. While that location is inconsistent with Sergeant Garcia\u2019s reported location of death at Pyoktong (Camp 5), it is possible that remains from Camp 1 and 5 exhumations were inadvertently mixed when delivered during Operation GLORY. The remains were later transported with all the unidentified Korean War remains and buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1956.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 9, 2019, DPAA personnel exhumed Unknown Remains X-14189 for further scientific testing and analysis. Further research by a DPAA historian and forensic anthropologist determined the remains could possibly be associated with Garcia. The remains were disinterred and sent to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis.<\/p>\n

To identify Garcia\u2019s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the\u00a0Armed Forces Medical Examiner System\u00a0used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.<\/p>\n

Garcia will be buried in Laredo, Texas on Oct. 14, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War<\/h2>\n

U.S. Army Cpl. Rex W. Powell<\/h2>\n

The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Rex W. Powell, 18, Valdese, North Carolina, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 13, 2023<\/p>\n

In the winter of 1950, Powell was a member of L Company, 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion, 31st<\/sup>\u00a0Infantry Regiment, 7th<\/sup>\u00a0Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 12, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. While it is possible Powell was captured, there was no record or eyewitness accounts of him being held as a prisoner of war, and no recovered remains were ever identified as him. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.<\/p>\n

During Operation GLORY in 1954, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea returned the remains of over 2,900 Americans. During the subsequent processing and identification of these remains, none were associated with Powell, and he was declared non-recoverable in January 1956. At the end of the identification process, 848 unidentified remains, including one designated X-15633 Operation GLORY, were interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n

In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In March 2021, during Phase Three of DPAA\u2019s Korean War Disinterment Project, X-15633 was disinterred from the Punchbowl and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.<\/p>\n

To identify Powell\u2019s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the\u00a0Armed Forces Medical Examiner System\u00a0used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.<\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.<\/p>\n

Powell will be buried in Salisbury, North Carolina on Aug. 11, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War<\/h2>\n

U.S. Army Cpl. Dewey E. Rewis<\/h2>\n

The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Dewey E. Rewis Jr., 18, of Waycross, Georgia, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Oct. 25, 2022.<\/p>\n

In late 1950, Rewis was a member of Battery D, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit were advancing along the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir, in North Korea, when they came under attack. In 1953, four POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Rewis had been a prisoner of war and died in March 1951 at an area called Death Valley; it was not an established POW Camp but a collection point for United Nations prisoners.<\/p>\n

In the late summer and fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered in an area north of the Chosin Reservoir known as Death Valley, to the United Nations Command (UNC). However, Rewis\u2019 name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him. Rewis was determined to be non-recoverable on Jan. 16, 1956.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 1, 1993, North Korea turned over 33 boxes of remains to the UNC, which sent them to the Central Identification Lab in Hawaii to undergo forensic analysis. In 2007 one of the three sets of remains was identified as a 31st RCT soldier killed near the Chosin Reservoir.<\/p>\n

To identify Rewis\u2019 remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the\u00a0Armed Forces Medical Examiner System\u00a0used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and Y chromosome (Y-STR), analysis.<\/p>\n

Rewis\u2019 name is recorded on the\u00a0American Battle Monuments Commission<\/a>\u2019s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.<\/p>\n

Rewis, will be buried in Echols County, Georgia on a date yet to be determined.<\/p>\n

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Soldier Accounted For From World War II<\/h2>\n

\u00a0U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom<\/h2>\n

The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, 20, of Boston, Massachusetts, missing in action during World War II, was accounted for April 6, 2023.<\/p>\n

In February 1944, Hom was assigned to the Company B, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. On Feb. 2, Hom went missing in action when his unit engaged in defensive fighting against German Forces near the town of Cisterna di Latina, Italy. \u00a0His body was not recovered, and the Germans never reported him a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on Feb. 3, 1945.<\/p>\n

Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. In 1946, AGRC investigators recovered a set of remains designated as X-541 Nettuno, three miles west of Cisterna thought to be associated with Hom. The investigators didn\u2019t have enough identifying data to positively ID the remains and they were interred at USMC Nettuno, which is now Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. \u00a0He was declared non-recoverable May 10, 1949.<\/p>\n

While studying unresolved American losses in the Anzio battlefield, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains designated X-541 Nettuno recovered near Cisterna in September 1944, possibly belonged to Hom. The remains which had been buried at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Nettuna, Italy in 1948, were disinterred in September 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification.<\/p>\n

To identify Hom remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the\u00a0Armed Forces Medical Examiner System\u00a0used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), analysis.<\/p>\n

Hom\u2019s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery an\u00a0American Battle Monuments Commission<\/a>\u00a0site in Nettuno, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.<\/p>\n

Hom will be buried in Brooklyn, New York on Oct. 11, 2023.<\/p>\n

For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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