7,456 US soldiers remain missing
The U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has confirmed the identity of the 701st U.S. soldier missing from the Korean War.
DPAA announced on the 16th (local time) that it had identified its 700th missing soldier, Army Corporal Billy Charles Driver from Dallas, Texas, last week.
He was a member of the 1st Cavalry Division and was killed in action at the Busan defense line on September 5, 1950, at the age of 18.
On the same day, DPAA announced that Staff Sergeant Raymond E. Hall of Ash Mountain, Kentucky, had been identified.
He was a member of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, and went missing after a battle with North Korean troops in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province in July 1950. Sergeant Hall, who was captured by the North Korean troops, was executed in the Suncheon Tunnel Massacre.
With this, the remains of a missing American soldier have been confirmed for the 701st time and converted to a death in action.
The remains of American soldiers who died in the Korean War are returned to their home country and given military honors and funerals. Since 1982, more than 450 bodies have been returned to the United States.
Of the 8,157 U.S. service members who were declared missing in 1973, 7,456 remain missing. The DPAA estimates that hundreds more are unaccounted for.
DPAA has been conducting investigations on the Korean Peninsula every year for over 60 years. Every year, DPAA plans several missing person site investigations in Korea to collect evidence, investigate clues, and conduct excavations.
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