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## News Release

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

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returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Corporal Henry D. Connell, U.S. Army, of Springfield, Mass. Connell is to be buried inhis hometown on Saturday.

Corporal Connell was assigned to L Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, when his unit engagedNorth Korean forces near Taegu, South Korea, in September 1950. He sustained injuries from a fallwhile evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield. He was sent to a military hospital in Japan,from which he was later reported – erroneously – to be absent without leave.

An investigation proved that Connell had returned to his unit, now battling Communist Chineseforces in North Korea in early November 1950 near Unsan, about 60 miles north of the capital ofPyongyang. He had been reported missing in action from that battle.

Between 1991-94, North Korea turned 208 boxes of remains believed to contain the remains of200-400 U.S. servicemen. One of those boxes, received on July 12, 1993, contained two dog tags forConnell, as well as human remains. The accompanying North Korean documents indicated theremains had been exhumed in Unsan County.

Over the next several years, forensic anthropologists at the Joint POW/MIA AccountingCommand (JPAC) at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, were able to determine that the box contained the remainsof at least four individuals. Some of those remains represented a 14-18-year-old male who stoodapproximately 70 inches tall at the time of his death. Korean War medical records indicated thatConnell was 17 years, 9 months of age, and stood 69.5 inches tall.

Among several forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNAIdentification Laboratory (AFDIL) also used mitochondrial DNA as one of the forensic tools in theidentification of Connell’s remains, matching a DNA sequence from a maternal relative.

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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