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## News Release

# Soldier Missing From Korean War Identified (Fisher)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced todaythat the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Korean War, have been identified andwill be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Army Sgt. Bernard J. Fisher, 21, of Wilkes Barre, Pa., will be buried July 16, in ArlingtonNational Cemetery near Washington, D.C. In January 1951, Fisher and elements of Company L,3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment (IR), 24th Infantry Division (ID), were deployed northeastof Seoul, South Korea, where they were attacked by enemy forces. During the 19th IR attempt todelay the enemy forces from advancing, Fisher and his unit moved towards a more defensibleposition, when the unit suffered heavy losses. It was during this attack, that Fisher was reportedmissing.

In July 1951, the U.S. Army Graves Registration recovered the remains of four men northof Shaha-dong, near Seoul, South Korea. The remains were buried in the United NationCemetery at Tanggok, South Korea, and were disinterred and transferred to the U.S. Army’sCentral Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan for laboratory analysis.

During the analysis the remains of three men could not be positively identified. In March1955, a military review board declared the remains of the fourth to be unidentifiable. Theunidentified remains were transferred to Hawaii, where they were interred as “unknown” at theNational Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the “Punchbowl.”

In 2012, U.S. officials reevaluated Fisher’s records and determined that with advances intechnology, the unknown remains could likely be identified. Following the reevaluation, thedecision was made to exhume the remains for scientific analysis identification.

In the identification of the remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA AccountingCommand (JPAC) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, such as dentalcomparison and chest radiograph – which matched Fisher’s records.

Using modern technology, identifications continue to be made from remains that werepreviously turned over by North Korean officials. Today, more than 7,900 Americans remainunaccounted for from the Korean War.

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) 699-1420.

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