The remains of a soldier missing since World War II will be buried today in Bethlehem, PA.<\/p>\n
PVT William Yawney<\/strong><\/a>, 105th Infantry regiment, 27th Infantry Division, US Army, formerly of Freemansburg, PA, was lost during operations on Saipan during June-July 1944.\u00a0 His remains could not be located for repatriation after the war.\u00a0 In 1948, his remains were declared unrecoverable.<\/p>\n However, on 3 September 2011 a private archeological firm excavating land near Achugao Village, Saipan, located human remains.\u00a0 These remains were turned over to the Joint POW\/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).\u00a0 Modern forensic techniques including mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) matching conclusively identified the remains as being those of PVT Yawney.<\/p>\n Rest in peace, my elder brother-in-arms.\u00a0 Welcome home at last.<\/p>\n . . . <\/strong><\/p>\n Over 73,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,900 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,640 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia.\u00a0 If you are a relative of one of the individuals listed here (World War II \u2013 critical need)<\/a>, <\/strong>listed here (Korea)<\/a>, <\/strong>or listed here (Southeast Asia)<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 please read this link<\/a><\/strong> to see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample.<\/p>\n If you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please submit one.\u00a0 By submitting a mtDNA sample you may be able to help identify US remains that have been recovered and repatriated but not yet positively identified.<\/p>\n Everybody deserves a proper burial.\u00a0 That\u2019s especially true for those who gave all in the service of this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The remains of a soldier missing since World War II will be buried today in Bethlehem, PA. PVT William Yawney, 105th Infantry regiment, 27th Infantry Division, US Army, formerly of Freemansburg, PA, was lost during operations on Saipan during June-July 1944.\u00a0 His remains could not be located for repatriation after the war.\u00a0 In 1948, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9ju","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}