Soldier Accounted For From Korean War
Defense MIA/POW Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Harry J. Hartmann, Jr., 19, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for July 13, 2022.
In the fall of 1950, Hartmann was a member of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was reported missing in action on Nov. 2 during fighting near Unsan, North Korea. Repatriated POWs reported he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war at Camp #5, Pyoktang, North Korea, where he died on or around March 31, 1951.
During Operation GLORY in the fall of 1954, 495 sets of remains from burial grounds around Camp #5 were returned to United Nations Command. All but 38 were identified. Those remains were buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1956.
In September 2019, during Phase 2 of DPAA’s Korean War Disinterment Project, X-14617 Operation GLORY was disinterred from the Punchbowl as part of the planned exhumation of Operation GLORY burials originating from Camp #5, and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for analysis.
To identify Hartmann’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Hartmann’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
LET US NOW OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE TO HONOR AMERICA’S
POW/MIAs, TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOUNT FOR THEM, AND TO
THE SAFETY OF ALL NOW SERVING OUR NATION!
Category: No Longer Missing
Thank you for your sacrifice, Warrior.
Welcome home, PFC.
Rest well.
Pvt. Hartmann enlisted two days before I was born . My uncle Bob served in that war and was fortunate to have returned home mostly intact. I am pretty sure family will not forget their service and hold those who served in high regard.
Welcome home Harry Hartmann, we are forever grateful for your service and sacrifice.
Rest Easy, PFC Hartmann.
A grateful nation remembers
(silent salute)
Pass the tissue.
Every fallen Warrior deserves, at the very least, a Marked Resting Place. Say their names…be their Witness.
Welcome Home PFC Harry J. Hartmann. We Salute your Service and Pay Honors to your Sacrifice.
Thanks, Dave. We have missed Hondo’s weekly postings…and Hondo. Hope he is well.
Passionately and unreservedly seconded!!
We will remember them.
Welcome home Brother. Rest in well-deserved peace now.
Here are the names of those accounted for in 2023:
https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/Year/2023/
Rest In Peace.
Salute.
Never Forget.
Welcome Home PFC Harry J. Hartmann.
I’ve missed these that used to be Sunday staples of the board.
“This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the soldier from o’er the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.”
With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson
*Slow Salute*