Four More are Home
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel.
From World War II
WT1c Edwin B. McCabe, 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 10 December 2018.
EM3c Roman W. Sadlowski, 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 11 December 2018.
S2c John C. Auld, 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 7 December 2018.
From Korea
PFC Karl L. Dye, US Army, assigned to B Battery, 52nd Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, was lost in South Korea on 16 July 1950. He was accounted for on 6 December 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 72,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; over 1,500 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA); 126 remain unaccounted for from the Cold War; 5 remain unaccounted for from the Gulf Wars; and 1 individual remains unaccounted for from Operation Eldorado Canyon. 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
Welcome Home Warriors. Our apologies that it took so long.
A quick search for B Btry 52nd FA and PFC Dye shows them arriving in country 7 July 50. A Btry had been there a few days before and had fired the 1st American Arty rounds of the war. With only 6 H.E.A.T. rounds they destroyed 6 NK tanks.
The 52nd was consolidated with the 13th and 63rd FA (105 mm guns) and were firing in support with the 11th FA (155mm guns) on 16 Jul 50
17 Jul 50 shows all of the Batteries being over run, losing 8 of 9 pieces and all but 3 trucks. PFC Dye was shown missing 16 Jul and later declared dead. In country less than 10 days.
Wish I knew better how to do that whole cut/paste linky/post thingy.
16 July 1950 is a date that means nothing to most Americans. For many years, after all, Korea was called the Forgotten War. Well, on that early date in the war, North Koreans forces pretty much had their way, attacking and attacking with success. That particular date, 16 July, was when some 30 wounded US infantrymen, medics attending them, and a Catholic priest comforting them were found and executed by a NorK patrol. The murders occurred above the place where the wounded Dye’s ambulance was stopped. Although he was not among the 30, I have little doubt that his fate was identical to theirs.
Yeah, Roger that A/C. Them first troops were pretty much speed bumps and “cannon fodder.” Again, I do wish I was more better at this whole computer, Google, operate and what not. Have learned more on my own lurking around here & picking up tid bits from y’all over the last few years.
Old school, give me a book, Britannica, World, library ect… Getting more used to some of it. Probably wouldn’t hurt if I one day took a basic course, hard headed, rather figure it out own my own.
Maybe if some of these millenial (?) types that are all into the underwater basket weaving/gender studies degrees would use their computer knowledge and the taxpayer provided school resources to study more history such as the Korean War, they would realize these socialistics utopias are not what they are cracked up to be.
I firmly bel;ieve that every MIA in the Korean War’s fate is known by the NK, and we will never get the entire “rest of the story.” I appreciate what you, AP, Hondo, Sky, and others do to bring as much info about these brave men out as can be found.
One thing I have learned about a lot of these web sites, the wikkis ect.., is the info does not always match what some of the original accounts are in some of the 1st edition reports. And a lot of the times it isn’t new info that has come out, it is history being revised for political correctness. As was commented yesterday re the GB Major; in war shit happens.
Wiki can be helpful, but anyone can put anything in there. After a while, one gets a sense of what’s reliable and what’s not. The more footnotes that check out in a piece, the better. I never use Wiki as a sole source of anything. If I read what’s there, I then verify through other sources.
This is the best way to use Wiki- as a reference to look deeper into the subject at hand.
And welcome home.
Welcome Home.
Welcome home Brothers. Rest in peace in your home soil now.
Welcome Home, Warriors. I am humbled by your sacrifice.
Welcome home, brothers.