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## News Release

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

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.

He is Cpl. Clem R. Boody, U.S. Army, of Independence, Iowa. His burial date andlocation are being set by his family.

Representatives from the Army met with Boody’s 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.

In November 1950, Boody was assigned to Headquarters Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment,1st Cavalry Division then occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea north of a bendin the Kuryong River known as the Camel’s Head. On Nov. 1, parts of two Chinese CommunistDivisions struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing awithdrawal. Boody was reported missing on Nov. 2, 1950 and was one of the more than 350servicemen unaccounted-for from the battle at Unsan.

In April 2007, the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (D.P.R.K.), actingthrough the intermediary of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former U.S. Secretary ofVeterans Affairs Anthony Principi, repatriated to the United States six boxes of human remainsbelieved to be those of U.S. soldiers. The D.P.R.K. reported that the remains were excavated inNovember 2006 near Unsan in North Pyongan Province.

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 Boody’s 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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