Another Four Come Home
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel.
From World War II
• F2c Lowell E. Valley, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 19 January 2018.
• F3c Warren H. Crim, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 19 January 2018.
From Korea
• SFC Pete W. Simon, G Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, US Army, was lost in South Korea on 5 September 1950. He was accounted for on 19 January 2018.
• PFC Lamar E. Newman, B Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost in North Korea on 27 November 1950. He was accounted for on 19 January 2018.
From Southeast Asia
• None
Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.
You’re home now. Rest easy.
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Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.
On their web site’s “Contact Us” page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer can be viewed here. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.
If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.
Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.
Category: No Longer Missing
Seems every week more from the USS Oklahoma.
Long time ago but not forgotten.
Yes, as remains from the Punchbowl are identified, the men are identified and a rosette placed alongside their names on the listing of the Fallen.
Welcome home Brothers…you can lay your heads now.
Rest in peace.
F2c Lowell E. Valley, forever 19, enlisted upon graduation from high school. He was from Ontonagon County, Michigan and was the son of Mr and Mrs. Joseph Valley and the brother of Lillian and Bobby Lee Valley.
‘forever 19’
Such sadness
Rest in Peace, Brothers. You served us well. You were gone but never forgotten.
Yes, it makes me think of many things, including that, in terms of age, mere months, maybe none, separated F2c Valley from some of the students in that guy Salcido’s class.
F3c Warren H. Crim, of Bristol, TN, all of 20, was married to Mildred Crim when his life was taken by the Japanese while he was aboard the USS Oklahoma.
Here’s a write-up regarding PFC Newman. He was married and, 66 years after he was listed as MIA, his wife, Carol, was asked whether it was love at first sight for the two. She answered, “No I wouldn’t say that. It took two or three days.”
ihttp://www.honorourkia.org/service_members/pfc-lamar-eugene-newman/
Correction. Somehow, I added an i to the URL. This is the corrected one:
http://www.honorourkia.org/service_members/pfc-lamar-eugene-newman/
SFC Pete W. Simon was from Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
Welcome home, men.
Rest well.
Welcome home Brothers. Rest in peace in our home soil now.
These are bittersweet, Hondo. Thanks for posting them every Sunday.
Welcome home, Rest in Peace.
welcome home. thank you for your service. rest in peace in the land your courageously defended.
my brothers…