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Soldier Missing in
Action from the Korean War is Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing
Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the
remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from
the Korean War, have been identified and will be
returned to his family for burial with full military
honors.
He is Cpl. Clem R. Boody, U.S. Army,
of Independence, Iowa. His burial date and location
are being set by his family.
Representatives from the Army met
with Boody's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and
identification process, and to coordinate interment
with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of
the Army.
In November 1950, Boody was assigned
to Headquarters Company, 8th Cavalry
Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division then
occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North
Korea north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as
the Camel's Head. On Nov. 1, parts of two Chinese
Communist Divisions struck the 1st
Cavalry Division's lines, collapsing the perimeter
and forcing a withdrawal. Boody was reported missing
on Nov. 2, 1950 and was one of the more than 350
servicemen unaccounted-
In April 2007, the Democratic
People's Republic of North Korea (D.P.R.K.), acting
through the intermediary of New Mexico Governor Bill
Richardson and former U.S. Secretary of Veterans
Affairs Anthony Principi, repatriated to the United
States six boxes of human remains believed to be
those of U.S. soldiers. The D.P.R.K. reported that
the remains were excavated in November 2006 near
Unsan in North Pyongan Province.
Among other forensic identification
tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from
JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification
Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental
comparisons in the identification of Boody's
remains.
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