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## News Release

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

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 Master Sgt. Robert V. Layton, U.S. Army, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is to be buriedtomorrow at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington D.C.

Layton was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th InfantryDivision (making up the 31st Regimental Combat Team). The RCT was engaged against theChinese People’s Volunteer Forces along the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. After intensefighting from Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 1950, the 1/32 Infantry was forced to abandon its position, leavingits dead behind. Layton was listed as Missing in Action on Dec. 2, 1950, and was later presumedKilled in Action.

Between 2002 and 2004, joint U.S.-Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea teams,led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), seven times excavated a mass burialsite associated with the 31st RCT along the eastern shore of the Chosin Reservoir. The teamfound human remains and other material evidence, including Layton’s identification tag and partof his billfold containing a newspaper clipping reporting on a Bronze Star being awarded to “Sgt.Robert Layton” circa 1944.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from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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