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Posted on 02/20/2009 9:13:14 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson
SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION FROM THE KOREAN WAR IS IDENTIFIED
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.
He is Sgt. Stanley E. Baylor, U.S. Army, of Webster, N.Y. His funeral will be held on Aug. 1 in Warsaw, N.Y. Representatives from the Army’s Mortuary Office met with Baylor’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.
Baylor was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On Nov. 1, 1950, the 8th Cavalry was occupying a defensive position near Unsan, North Korea in an area known as the “Camel’s Head,” when elements of two Chinese Communist Forces divisions struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. The 3rd Battalion was surrounded and effectively ceased to exist as a fighting unit. Baylor was reported missing on Nov. 2, 1950 and was one of the more than 350 servicemen unaccounted-for from the battle at Unsan.
Between 1991-94, North Korea gave the U.S. 208 boxes of remains believed to contain the remains of 200-400 U.S. servicemen. Accompanying North Korean documents indicated that some of the remains were exhumed near Chonsung-Ri, Unsan County. This location correlates with Baylor’s last known location.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of Baylor’s remains, which were turned over in 1993.
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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I keep hoping it’s one of my cousins. I’ve never met him, he died before I was born, yet still I wonder when or if he will come home.
BTTT
What unit was he in and where was he lost?
Welcome home Sgt. Baylor, may you rest in peace now.
An American patriot returns home.
Welcome home soldier.
Condolences to your family.
From http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123012446
Pinned down by a barrage of rocket fire and running out of supplies, American Soldiers staged one of the most valiant stands of the Korean War in the Battle of Unsan. Sheer determination and a strong will to survive were about all the members of the U.S. Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment had to get them through a fight marked with impossible odds.
The Battle of Unsan, which was one of the most devastating U.S. loses of the Korean War, broke out on the morning of Nov. 1, 1950. …
The men desperately fought off a swarming enemy. Rations were scarce and only provided to the wounded. Ammo was at critical levels — so low that troops were forced to forage for weapons among the enemy dead.
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Welcome home, Soldier.
Welcome home, brother.
Welcome home, Sgt. Stanley E. Baylor, U.S. Army, of Webster, N.Y., and thank you for your sacrifice.
Dunno, Army, had only been there a few days. He drew the short straw to be the one to get water from the lake, and was machine gunned on the spot. The rest of his patrol escaped.
God Bless the Baylor family and all our brave warriors.
Welcome Home-Thank You!!
I think the destruction of the Army 31st RCT on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir was the most devastating loss due largely to high command incompetence and gross negligence.
Only 385 doggies out of 3,000 escaped to the 1st Marine perimeter where Chesty Puller threatened to have his tanks fire on them if they withdrew as much as a foot from their assigned positions.
He joined the Army when he was seventeen and was sent to the Philippines in July, 1941. Eight months later, he was captured by the Japanese and sent to a copper mine in Korea, where he was assigned to the blasting team. He quickly found a way to keep the Japanese from being too rough on him; he acted like he was crazy. The guards were convinced that his "insanity" was a punishment from the gods and they did not want to bring the wrath of those gods down upon themselves, so they generally left him alone.
Welcome home Sgt. and thank you.
“Freedom Is Not Free”
Rest peacefully, Sgt. Baylor.
Thank you Korean War Veterans for your sacrifice and service.
Here are some pics of the memorial.
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