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## News Release

# First Identification Of Soldier Missing In Action From WW I (Lupo)

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

This is the first time the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) has identified asoldier unaccounted-for from World War I.

He is Pvt. Francis Lupo, U.S. Army, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He will be buried on Tuesday atArlington National Cemetery near Washington D.C.

Representatives from the Army met with the next-of-kin of Pvt. Lupo to explain therecovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors onbehalf of the Secretary of the Army.

In 1918, Lupo participated in the combined French-American attack on the Germans nearSoissons, France, in what came to be known as the Second Battle of the Marne. Despite heavyAllied losses, this Battle has been regarded as a turning point in the war, halting and reversing thefinal German advances toward Paris.

Lupo, a member of Company E, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, was killedin action during the battle, but his remains were never recovered.

In 2003, while conducting a survey in preparation for a construction project, a Frencharchaeological team discovered human remains and other items a short distance from Soissons.Among the items recovered were a military boot fragment and a wallet bearing Lupo’s name.The items were given by the French to U.S. officials for analysis.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists fromJPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in theidentification of Pvt. Lupo’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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