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## News Release

# Soldier Missing From Korean War Is Identified (MacLeod)

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

He is Pfc. Billy M. MacLeod, U.S. Army, of Cheboygan, Mich. He was buried Saturdayin Cheboygan.

Representatives from the Army met with MacLeod’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.

MacLeod was a member of Company B, 32nd Infantry Regiment, then making up part ofthe 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, operating along the eastern banks of theChosin Reservoir in North Korea. From Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 1950, the Chinese People’s VolunteerForces overran the U.S. positions, forcing their southward withdrawal. Regimental recordscompiled after the battle indicate that MacLeod was killed in action on Nov. 28, 1950.

Between 2002 and 2005, three joint U.S.-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea teams,led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated an area with two massgraves on the eastern shore of the Chosin Reservoir. They were believed to be burial sites of U.S.soldiers from the 31st RCT. The teams found human remains and other material evidence.Analysis of the remains subsequently led to the identifications of eight individuals, includingMacLeod.

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 MacLeod’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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