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## News Release

# Soldier Missing From Korean War Identified (Ryan)

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 arebeing returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Army Master Sgt. Clifford L. Ryan, 27, of Muscatine, Iowa, will be buried Sept. 8 inRiverside, Calif. On Nov. 1, 1950, Ryan’s unit, the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division,occupied a defensive position along the Kuryong River, near Unsan, North Korea. Chinese unitsattacked the area and forced a withdrawal. Almost 600 men, including Ryan, were reportedmissing or killed in action following the battle.

In 2000, a joint U.S-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea team, led by the JointPOW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a mass grave discovered earlier in UnsanCounty, south of the area known as “Camel’s Head.” 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.

Scientists from JPAC and AFDIL determined the identity of the remains usingcircumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, such as mitochondrial DNA–whichmatched Ryan’s brother and sister.

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) 699-1169.

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