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.
"...from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Welcome home Sgt. Stanley E. Baylor, and thank you JPAC workers.
Another fascinating group is Bent Prop, a volunteer group that goes to the Palau Islands each year to search for downed American aircraft. Once they have located a crash site, they document as much information as they can and then turn it over to JPAC. JPAC is currently searching three crash sites that the Bent Prop folks have uncovered; one F-4U Corsair, a TBM-1 Avenger, and a B-24J Liberator.
Bent Prop's 2009 expedition just started the other day and they will be posting updates on their website throughout the coming weeks.
I respectfully can’t help but wonder, if his remains were turned over in 1993, why they were not identified until now....??
Salute.
And prayers of comfort and peace for the family.
Sgt. Stanley E. Baylor welcome home, and thank you for your ultimate sacrifice. Rest well.
Additionally, many of the remains were jumbled together and it takes quite some time to separate them. So while they might be able to identify a tooth or two through dental records, it might take some time to figure out which bones belong to which body.
What painstaking work. God bless them all. Thank you for that additional information.
Welcome Home Sgt. Baylor. RIP warrior.
Thank you for this ping SJ. I will be praying for peace for his family. If that is at all possible. I can’t even imagine what they’ve gone through all these years. God bless them & you friend.
Thank you, Stonewall.
My father had some friends in the Army (yes, we make exceptions for a few : ) who were in a bad spot (that’s putting it mildly) in Korea just shortly after Sgt. Stanley E. Baylor’s death.
Welcome Home, Stanley Baylor.
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Proverbs 3:24
Hand Salute....................two
We ran a story on JPAC at the Foxhole a few years ago and we also have a freeper who was on a recent mission to recover a downed fighter from I think the Vietnam era.
They do good work.
btw Stonewall, my husband found an old copy of Military Magazine yesterday with an interesting article. It's Clinton's "Loathing Letter."
A short while earlier, we had been discussing Clinton's latest ego-building comparison of himself to President Theodore Roosevelt - LOL!
Rest in peace, Sgt. Baylor.
I have coffee on Saturday mornings with a dwindling group of Chosin Marines (one the greatest honors of my life, beside the births of my kids and making E-6).
They will be glad to see this.
Thank you, Sir.
It is my opinion that the Korean Memorial is the best monument in DC.
>>>>>We ran a story on JPAC at the Foxhole a few years ago
This one?
The FReeper Foxhole Reviews News from JPAC - June 13th, 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1152666/posts
Welcome home soldier. May G-d bless you and comfort your loved ones.
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