The stays of a U.S. Military corporal from the Ottumwa space who died as a prisoner of conflict throughout the Korean battle have been recognized and will likely be returned to Iowa for burial, based on the U.S. Protection Division’s POW/MIA Accounting Company.
Delbert L. White was captured by enemy forces on Dec. 1, 1950, according to an agency news release. He and others had been marched to a jail camp in North Korea, the place he died of malnutrition the next March.
White’s stays had been amongst 38 returned in a postwar alternate that might not be recognized and had been buried as “Unknowns” on the Nationwide Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu in 1956, the discharge stated.
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In 2019, the unidentified stays had been exhumed and despatched to the company’s lab for evaluation with means together with DNA testing, which positively recognized these belonging to White, the discharge stated.
A date for the burial has but to be set. White’s household couldn’t be reached for remark. A Des Moines Register article from 1953, reporting his dying, recognized his mother and father as Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd White of Belknap.
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