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## News Release

# Soldier Missing From Korean War Identified (Scott)

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

Army Cpl. A.V. Scott, 27, of Detroit, will be buried June 22 at Arlington NationalCemetery near Washington, D.C. On Feb. 12, 1951, Scott’s unit, the 503rd Field ArtilleryBattalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was supplying friendly forces approximately 70 miles east ofSeoul, South Korea, when Chinese Communist units attacked the area and forced a withdrawal.Scott was captured by enemy forces and marched north to a prisoner of war camp in SuanCounty, North Korea. Surviving POWs within the camp reported Scott died in April 1951.

Between 1991 and 1994, North Korea gave the United States 208 boxes of remainsbelieved to contain the remains of 200-400 U.S. servicemen. North Korean documents turnedover with one of the boxes indicated the remains were exhumed near Suan County, whichcorrelates with Scott’s last known location.

Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPACused dental comparisons and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory usedmitochondrial DNA – which matched that of Scott’s cousins—in the identification.

More than 2,000 servicemen died as prisoners of war during the Korean War. With thisidentification, 7,993 service members still remain missing from the conflict.

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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