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## News Release

# U.S. Soldier Missing From Korean War Identified (Rogers)

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 will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Benny D. Rogers, 25, of Athens, Texas, will be buried on Nov. 12, inhis hometown. In November 1950, Rogers, and almost 600 other 8th Cavalry Regiment soldierswere killed during a battle south of Unsan, North Korea. Their bodies were not able to berecovered at the time and were likely buried on the battlefield by Chinese or North Korean forces.

In 2000, a joint U.S./Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) team led by theJoint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a mass grave that had been discoveredin Unsan. Human remains of at least five individuals, and U.S. military uniforms were recovered,but they were unable to be identified given the technology of the time. In 2007, because ofadvances in DNA technology, scientists from the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory(AFDIL) reanalyzed the remains.

Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from the JPACand AFDIL used dental records, and mitochondrial DNA – which matched that of Rogers’ motherand nephew – in the identification of his remains.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.

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