The remains of a U.S. Army corporeal posthumously given the nation's highest military award have been identified more than seven decades after he was declared missing overseas during the Korean War.
The remains of a U.S. Army corporeal posthumously given the nation's highest military award have been identified more than seven decades after he was declared missing overseas during the Korean War.
In 1950, 11 sets of remains were found near Sangde-po, South Korea, eight of which were identified. The unidentified remains were then transported, alongside others considered unknown, to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also called the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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