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## News Release

# Soldier Missing In Action From The Korean War Is Identified (Long)

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 returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Pfc. Charles H. Long, U.S. Army, of Durand, Ill. He will be buried Nov. 25 inDurand.

Representatives from the Army met with the 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.

On March 24, 1953, Long was one of four men from L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31stInfantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, who was declared missing in action after engagingenemy forces north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on what came to be known as Pork ChopHill. The bodies of two of the MIAs were recovered and a third MIA was returned alive duringOperation Big Switch after having been captured by Chinese Communist Forces. Long remainedunaccounted-for and eventually declared dead on March 24, 1954.

In 1993, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) gave United Nationsofficials 33 boxes with human remains of alleged U.S. servicemen who were unaccounted-for.The DPRK recovered the remains near Komsa-ri in Kangwon Province, which was near Long’slast known location. Also included in one of the boxes were Long’s social security andidentification cards and identification tags.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from theJoint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA IdentificationLaboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of theremains.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

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