REMAINS OF U.S. SERVICEMEN RECOVERED IN NORTH KOREA

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

>From the DoD website:

No. 472-01  
IMMEDIATE RELEASE  October 1, 2001  



REMAINS OF U.S. SERVICEMEN RECOVERED IN NORTH KOREA
Remains believed to be those of 17 American soldiers,
missing in action from the Korean War will be
repatriated in formal ceremonies Tuesday, Korea time.
This is the largest number of remains recovered in a
single joint recovery operation since U.S. teams began
their work in North Korea in 1996. 

The remains will be flown on a U.S. Air Force aircraft
from Pyongyang, North Korea, under escort of a
uniformed U.S. honor guard to Yokota Air Base, Japan,
where a United Nations Command repatriation ceremony
will be held. 

Operating near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, a
joint U.S. - Korea team recovered 14 remains believed
to be those of U.S. Army soldiers from the 7th
Infantry Division who fought against Chinese forces
Nov.-Dec. 1950. Approximately 1,000 Americans are
estimated to have been lost in battles of the Chosin
campaign. 

Additionally, a second team recovered three sets of
remains in Unsan and Kujang counties and along the
Chong Chon River, about 60 miles north of Pyongyang.
The area was the site of battles between Communist
forces and the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division, and
2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions in November 1950. The
Defense Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office
negotiated an agreement with the North Koreans last
year which led to the scheduling of this year's
operations. 

The 28-person U.S. teams are composed primarily of
specialists from the Army's Central Identification
Laboratory Hawaii (CILHI). 

This year's schedule of operations in North Korea is
the largest yet, with ten individual operations
scheduled near the Chosin Reservoir, as well as in the
Unsan, Kujang and Kaechon City areas. Twenty-five
individual operations have been conducted since 1996
in North Korea, recovering 144 sets of remains
believed to be those of U.S. soldiers. Eight have been
positively identified and returned to their families
for burial with full military honors. Another 12 are
in the final stages of the forensic identification
process. 


http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/b10012001_bt472-01.html


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