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## News Release

# Soldier Missing From Korean War Identified (Knight)

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.

Army Sgt. William C. Knight, 20, of West Brookfield, Mass., will be buried May 10, inhis hometown. In late November 1950, Knight and elements of the Headquarters Battery, 57thField Artillery Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT) were engaged by enemy forceseast of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. On Dec. 1, 1950, remnants of the 31st RCT, knownhistorically as Task Force Faith, began a fighting withdrawal to a more defensible position nearthe Hangaru-ri, south of the reservoir.

During the withdrawal, the 31st RCT encountered an enemy road block that forced theirU.S. truck convoy off the road. The convoy came under intense enemy fire, resulting innumerous casualties. It was during this attack that Knight was reported missing.

In August 2002, a joint U.S/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K) teamexcavated a mass grave on the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir; near the last-known locationof Knight. During this excavation operation, the team recovered remains from the site.

In the identification of the remains, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA AccountingCommand (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) usedcircumstantial evidence, compiled by DPMO and JPAC researchers, and forensic identificationtools, such as dental comparison, to identify Knight. They also used mitochondrial DNA–whichmatched Knight’s two brothers.

Today, more than 7,900 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO website at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.

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