Catherine Rusoff
Sixteen soldiers who died in World War II and the Korean War have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday.
Seven of the U.S. service members counted were prisoners of war who died in World War II. The other nine were killed in the Korean War.
The seven prisoners of war – identified as Air Force Sgt. Jack H. Hohlfeldcable Raymond N. DeClosssergeant. Sam A. Prince, Technology. Sergeant Charles E. Young Jr.Air Force Soldier Robert W. MoneyPrivate Jacob Guttermanand Pfc. José C. Murphy – were some of the thousands of soldiers who were captured and held as prisoners of war by Japanese forces in the Philippines.
DPAA did not provide any information about how the seven POWs were accounted for or identified and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CBS News. The agency typically uses a variety of methodsincluding mitochondrial DNA analysis and isotope analysis, to identify the remains of fallen soldiers, and then contacts surviving family members to make plans for a full military burial.
The nine soldiers who died in the Korean War were killed in battles around the peninsula. Sergeant Clayton M. PierceCable William Colbyand the sergeant. Charles E. Beaty were reported missing in action after their units were attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. Pierce and Colby were in the same regiment.
Body Jesse L. Mitchell and sergeant. John P. Rhyter both disappeared when their units engaged in what the DPAA called “intensive combat actions” during the Battle of Ch’ongch’on River in 1950. Mitchell reportedly died while a prisoner of war. Rhyter was not recorded as killed during the battle, but also “there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war,” the DPAA said. The US Army listed an alleged discovery of his death in 1956, but he has not been found until now.
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of the remaining four soldiers were also unclear. Body Eduardo J. Smith was found after being reported missing in action in August 1950, near Changnyong, South Korea. Sergeant 1st Class Israel Ramos disappeared in action near Yongsan, South Korea, in August 1950, but the DPAA said his body could not be recovered and his remains were determined to be unrecoverable in 1956. Pfc. Charles A. Vorel Jr.. was reported missing in action in July 1950, near the Kum River in South Korea, and was also declared unrecoverable in 1956. Army Sgt. Kester B. Hardman was reported missing after operations in April 1951. After the end of the war in 1953, North Korean forces said that Hardman had died while a prisoner in a POW camp, but his remains were not identified during or immediately after the war, DPAA said.
The DPAA did not say how the nine men were found or how the soldiers’ remains, some listed as non-recoverable, were studied.
North Korea is the only country with fallen U.S. military personnel with which the DPAA does not maintain diplomatic relations, but as of 2018, 55 Korean War boxes remain were repatriated to the United States following an agreement between Kim Jong-Un and former President Donald Trump. Ashley Wright, public relations specialist at DPAA, told CBS News in May that these boxes “yielded 250 different sets of DNA sequences.”
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